Coffee With Developers • Oct 25, 2023

Navigating Growth, Scaling Challenges, and Office Expansions with David Singleton, CTO at Stripe

David Singleton , Thomas Pamminger

David Singleton proves that scaling to 7,000 engineers shouldn't kill deployment speed. Discover how Stripe balances five-nines of availability with 45-minute production cycles.

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