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From @koopajah on discord: "We don't really drop nines if one specific feature is having issues". Pretty convenient payment processing is just a "feature" of a
by GingerMidas 4y ago
From @koopajah on discord: "We don't really drop nines if one specific feature is having issues". Pretty convenient payment processing is just a "feature" of a payment infrastructure SaaS
- redditor98654 4y agoHate it when companies do it. It should be the min of the availabilities of your APIs.
- civilized 4y agoI guess 99.999% uptime is no longer an engineer's well-earned badge of honor at Stripe. Now it's just sales puffery, like a LOWEST PRICES IN THE CITY!! sign at a discount store. Sorry, but true class isn't just elegant rectangles decorated by various subtle shades of gray sans serif.
- throwawaypppu 4y agoThis is a bullshit and untenable position. This “one specific feature” takes out the core feature. Shameful, deceitful and reputation tarnishing position.
- jhugo 4y agoTo be fair, it only takes out the core feature for people using Stripe Tax, which is apparently a small fraction of customers.
- NovemberWhiskey 4y agoa.k.a. "my probed availability ignores user journeys that are actually an important part of my product"
- quickthrower2 4y agoIn a OKR culture, the way to make your KR good is to add lots of useless and very simple microservices, which are always up, so the overall metric is 100%.
- NovemberWhiskey 4y agoIf your KRs are the uptimes of your simple microservices, you're not in an OKR culture.