Re:Stripe's API was down
by perfect_wave on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @02:17PM
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I also look forward to reading the postmortem. Stripe puts out a lot of high quality blog posts.
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Re:Stripe's API was down
by jamestimmins on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @02:28PM
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The Stripe outage that occurred bc of a deleted DB index was particularly interesting.
Someone deleted an index before the replacement was live due to a process error. This had cascading effects across the system and caused a large % of API requests to timeout. It's such a pedestrian problem but had an enormous impact.