Fable
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Fable
@defrag_fable
L5 SWE @Stripe. This is where I tweet about computers. they/them 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈

Check out the latest interview with Fable Tales, Staff Engineer at Stripe! If you're a strong technical IC with dreams of having an impact at a leadership level, this one's for you. podcast.tuple.app/episodes/fable…

Also pip pip for Shopify. I found out about this place from a local restaurant that serves it then thought “Eh, I’m not going to create an account somewhere just for coffee I’ll probably order once every few months” but they had Shopify Pay and so no data entry to send them $.





🏋️♀️We design for resiliency and stress test our systems. We ran 35 API-wide load tests (up to 3x weekly) plus chaos tests to validate at scale. These add significant synthetic traffic to the API — 35k requests per second this year — making the actual >20,000 BFCM peak seamless.

Congratulations to the Stripe infrastructure teams! With record scale, Black Friday and Cyber Monday passed uneventfully. >20,000 peak RPS and >99.9999% API success rate.

Congratulations to the Stripe infrastructure teams! With record scale, Black Friday and Cyber Monday passed uneventfully. >20,000 peak RPS and >99.9999% API success rate.




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สวัสดีประเทศไทย! Stripe is now available in Thailand. 🇹🇭 stripe.com/newsroom/news/…


