Claimable sandboxes are a primitive that unblocks agents to build and test Stripe integrations without having to sign up. Learn how they work and how we navigated security, latency, cost, and UX tradeoffs.
To minimize failed payments for our users, Stripe targets 99.9995% reliability. As traffic grew beyond 1.6% of global GDP, this put intense strain on the service mesh. This is the story of the infrastructure team replacing Envoy, a popular solution, with an alternative architecture.
We all know the stereotypes of working at enterprise tech companies: endless bureaucracy and behemoth codebases running on a years-old language version. Most organizations know they should modernize quickly, but haven’t figured out how to build an upgrade path compatible with a large codebase. The recurring cost of upgrading keeps most large JVM codebases trailing behind the latest Java versions.