1,145 pull requests per day

Slide from opening keynote of Stripe Sessions 2025 There is a recent video of Patrick Collison at Stripe Sessions 2025 stating that in 2024 Stripe did on average 1,145 pull requests per day. Not just creating them, but actually finishing them; "fully shipped into production". All whilst having less than a minute of API unreliability for the entire year. Stripe has roughly 8,500 employees (BI, 2025). 40% or so in engineering (Forbes, 2022). With some napkin math assuming a similar distribution today, that would mean on average each engineer ships at least 1 change to production every 3 days. That is pretty incredible for the scale at which Stripe operates ($1.4 trillion(!) payment volume in 2024). Though Stripe is well-known for their strong engineering culture, a number like that really puts things into perspective. According to DORA 2024 (research by Google on software delivery & operations) elite software delivery performance does "multiple deploys per day" with a 5% failure rate. ... Read full article.