Stripe’s Docdb: How Zero-Downtime Data Movement Powers Trillion-Dollar Payment Processing

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Posted on Thu Apr 30 2026 | 3:22 pm

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.

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