How we build APIs and Team at Stripe
summary
Stripe runs about 250 million API requests per day, deploys roughly 4,000 API versions a year across ~500 endpoints, and maintains an 800‑engineer global team. Design practices include a written API spec, cross‑functional in‑person API review, gated betas and incremental rollouts, and user testing (example: async payments for SCA, Sigma analytics, Stripe CLI). API rules: simplicity, composability, idempotency, enums over booleans, explicit verbs, backward compatibility, and team structure aligned with Conway’s law.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Start
- 19:34NESTED STRUCTURES
- 19:51PROPERTIES AS ENUMS
- 20:20REFLECT API REQUEST IN RESPONSE
- 20:42POLYMORPHIC OBJECTS
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