Stripe's API was down

Re:Stripe's API was down by techie128 on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @03:34PM (#20405615)

I disagree. The system has had a 100% reliability for several years. I know it is unbelievable but true. That doesn't mean it doesn't suffer from failures in one or multiple AZs or that it is perfect.

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Re:Stripe's API was down by segmondy on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @04:21PM (#20406105)

100% reliability needs to also be measured by usage. It's easy to get that if you have 1 or 10 customers vs a hundred customers. How many unique customers & transactions were you seeing?

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Re:Stripe's API was down by azernik on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @04:53PM (#20406433)

Even the ridiculously-conservative telecoms measure their uptime in "nines". Four-nines, five-nines, whichever. "100%" is not a meaningful target.

> That doesn't mean it doesn't suffer from failures in one or multiple AZs or that it is perfect

If "100% reliability" doesn't mean 100% uptime for all users, then what does it mean?

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Re:Stripe's API was down by organsnyder on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @04:54PM (#20406441)

"Several years" of uptime, sample size of one. Most people here probably have systems like that, but would never have the chutzpah to believe that they'd totally engineered away the potential for downtime.

How often are changes made to the system?

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Re:Stripe's API was down by danShumway on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @05:15PM (#20406632)

My laptop's hard drive had 100% reliability for upwards of 6-8 years.

I'm still making backups.

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