1,145 pull requests per day

a year ago

Stripe averaged 1,145 pull requests per day in 2024, fully shipped into production.
Stripe had less than a minute of API unreliability for the entire year.
With ~8,500 employees (40% in engineering), each engineer ships ~1 change to production every 3 days.
Stripe processed $1.4 trillion in payment volume in 2024.
Stripe's deployment performance places them in the top 1% of elite performers (DORA 2024).
Achieving this requires heavy investment in automated tests, deployments, rollbacks, and observability.
Stripe's engineering culture is demanding but advanced, enabling high velocity and autonomy.
The goal is removing friction to rapidly ship value to users, not just hitting deployment numbers.

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