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Home Features Pricing More Checkout Subscriptions Marketplaces Connect Apple Pay Gallery Blog About Jobs Documentation Help & Support Sign in Blog Follow Stripe on Twitter Game Day Exercises at Stripe: Learning from `kill -9` Marc Hedlund on October 28, 2014 We’ve started running game day exercises at Stripe. During a recent game day, we tested failing over a Redis cluster by running kill -9 on its primary node [0] , and ended up losing all data in the cluster. We were very surprised by this, but grateful to have found the problem in testing. This result and others from this exercise convinced us that game days like these are quite valuable, and we would highly recommend them for others. If you’re not familiar with game days, the best introductory article is this one from John Allspaw [1] . Below, we’ll lay out a playbook for how to run a game day, and desc...

Stripe Blog Follow @stripe on twitter Stellar Greg Brockman , July 31, 2014 Since Stripe's earliest days, we've believed the world needs simpler and more open protocols for moving money. We launched our Bitcoin beta four months ago, and we recently published some of our thoughts around cryptocurrencies. Today, we're excited to see the launch of Stellar , a new open-source project and nonprofit organization to which we've provided seed funding. Stellar is (like Bitcoin) a decentralized payment network; unlike Bitcoin, it supports transactions in arbitrary currencies—you can use dollars, Euros, bitcoins, or anything else. Stellar implements something very close to the idealized " IP layer for money " idea that we described last week. You can find more details (and obtain your first "stellars", the network's native currency) by reading their launch post . Development i...

Stripe Blog Follow @stripe on twitter Bitcoin: the Stripe perspective Greg Brockman , July 21, 2014 Many people have remarked that Bitcoin resembles the internet in the early 90s: we haven’t yet built the Googles that will make it accessible or the Facebooks and Netflixes that will make it broadly useful. So it’s an open question: what might a Bitcoin that’s useful for the mainstream look like? Money has three functions: it’s a store of value (that is, somewhere you can put your life savings), a unit of account (that is, a measure of value), and a medium of exchange (a way to transport value). On the first two fronts, Bitcoin has shown promise in high-inflation economies , but it’s a much tougher sell for mainstream consumers in stable countries. There, consumers mostly want a safe place to hold their savings, and the existing bank account insurances and consu...

Stripe Blog Follow @stripe on twitter Stripe Open-Source Retreat Greg Brockman , April 24, 2014 We rely on a lot of open-source software at Stripe, and over time we’ve contributed back our own share of patches and projects. We decided we’d like to do more, though, so we’re launching an open-source retreat program. We’ll give a grant to a small number of developers to come to San Francisco to work full-time on an open-source project for a period of 3 months. They’ll have space in our SF office. We’ll ask that they give a couple of internal tech talks over the course of the program (ideally focused on what they’re working on), but otherwise it’ll be no-strings-attached. We’re looking for projects where this grant can make an especially large difference. Maybe it’s a rapidly-growing project where the maintainer can currently barely find time for bugfixes. Maybe ...

Stripe Blog Follow @stripe on twitter Coming soon: Stripe CTF3 Greg Brockman , January 15, 2014 It's been over a year since our last Capture the Flag competition, and in the meanwhile we've fielded dozens of inquiries about when the next one's coming. The wait is almost over: CTF3 will be here a week from today. Next Wednesday, starting at 11am San Francisco time (2pm Boston, 7pm London, 6am Melbourne), we'll be launching CTF3. This time around, we're trying something a bit different. Rather than being about security, CTF3 will focus on distributed systems engineering. You'll learn how to build fault-tolerant, performant software while playing around with a bunch of cool cutting-edge technologies. Like with previous CTFs, our goal is to give you hands-on exposure to interesting engineering problems that you normally only get to read about. If yo...