In 2022, Stripe deployed its core payments APIs 5,978 times (16.4 times a day on average) ...
API reliability is now consistently in excess of 99.999%, and, during the peak week of Black Friday and Cyber Monday , exceeded six nines (that is, 99.9999%, — the equivalent of around 600 milliseconds of unavailability.
(It takes about 300 milliseconds for a human to blink.)
John's and my 2022 annual letter for Stripe:
stripe.com/annual-updates/20….
Topics covered include:
• The increase in startup creation rates.
• Trends in startup hubs.
• The perils of "low-revenue mode".