Stripe's Insane 1,145 Daily Deployments: A Masterclass in Efficiency

Stripe completed an average of 1,145 pull requests and deployments per day in 2024, experiencing less than a minute of API downtime for the entire year. With roughly 8,500 employees (around 40% engineers), this translates to each engineer shipping at least one change to production every three days. This showcases Stripe's exceptional engineering culture and massive investment in automated testing, deployments, rollbacks, observability, and more. While achieving Stripe's scale and efficiency is challenging, their success highlights the importance of reducing friction to rapidly deliver value to users.