How Stripe's document databases supported 99.999% uptime with zero-downtime data migrations
Stripe's DocDB and its Data Movement Platform move data between shards without downtime.
- Published
- 2024-06-06
- Scale
- 1.5 PB, 99.999% uptime
- Techniques
- sharding shard migration zero downtime
- Stack
- MongoDB DocDB
Try this stack yourself
- Railway · Deploy something like this on Railway: spin up MongoDB plus your app in a few clicks. New accounts get $20 in credit (applied when you pick a paid plan).
Railway isn't part of Stripe's setup in this story. It's just an easy place to try the same building blocks. - Better Stack · Monitor uptime and logs with Better Stack, and get alerted fast if a migration or traffic spike goes sideways on your own system.
Better Stack isn't part of Stripe's setup in this story. It's a tool for watching your own systems while you try ideas like these.
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