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Engineering lead Alex Lusco from Stripe's API platform team explains how Stripe maintains five nines of reliability and the engineering principles behind one of the most praised APIs in the developer community. We dive deep into why Stripe built API v2, how it differs from v1, and what the future holds for agentic AI interactions with Stripe's platform. Alex also shares key principles that startups can learn from Stripe's approach to building developer-first products.


00:00 Introduction
01:31 Achieving five nines reliability under the hood
03:09 Understanding five nines: 5 minutes downtime per year
04:08 Why Stripe built API v2
06:46 How accounts v2 helps developers
08:11 Improved idempotency in API v2
10:19 Global architecture and performance optimizations
12:07 Microservices architecture in API v2
13:49 Why customers should migrate to v2
14:17 Principles for startups
16:27 Being meticulous and user-first
17:53 AI and agentic interactions with Stripe
19:11 The future of Stripe's MCP integration
22:40 From IDE to production with AI agents
24:49 Where to learn more about API v2