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Stripe Engineering·Jul 16, 2026·1 min read·Pragya Mehta39

How Stripe uses graph search and state machines to auto-remediate a global database fleet

Discover how we modeled our MongoDB infrastructure as a traversable graph and then use pathfinding algorithms to dynamically compute and execute recovery plans. This automated approach reduced pager volume by 30% (~200 pages/year), eliminated 12 days of unhealthy shard states annually, and supports new shard layouts with zero manual effort.

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