Presentation: Stripe’s Docdb: How Zero-Downtime Data Movement Powers Trillion-Dollar Payment Processing (opens in new tab)

Jimmy Morzaria discusses the evolution of Stripe’s database tier to support 5 million QPS with 5.5 nines of reliability. He explains the architecture of DocDB and shares how Stripe leverages a custom zero-downtime data movement platform to perform horizontal sharding, version upgrades, and multi-tenant migrations - all while maintaining the strict consistency required for global commerce. By Jimmy Morzaria