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Modeling Money Movement: Ledgers, State Machines, and Exactly-Once Effects
How Stripe models money movement with immutable ledger entries and explicit state machines to guarantee correctness even when networks and services fail.
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Sorbet: Bringing Static Types to Millions of Lines of Stripe's Ruby
Why Stripe built its own type checker, Sorbet, instead of rewriting its large Ruby codebase, and how gradual typing let adoption happen incrementally.
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Stripe's Four-Phase Pattern for Migrating Databases Without Downtime
How Stripe moves data between database schemas and systems while staying live, using a four-phase dual-write and backfill pattern instead of a maintenance window.
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Rate Limiters and Load Shedders: How Stripe's API Protects Itself
How Stripe layers per-request rate limiting with system-wide load shedding to keep its payments API available when traffic spikes or dependencies slow down.
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Idempotency Keys: How Stripe Made Payment Retries Safe
How Stripe's idempotency key design lets clients safely retry payment requests after a timeout without risking a duplicate charge.
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How Stripe Keeps a Decade of API Versions Backwards Compatible
Stripe's approach to API versioning uses per-account pinned versions and request/response transforms instead of forcing every integration onto the latest shape.
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