--- title: Stripe's Zero-Downtime Data Movement Platform Migrates... description: Stripe developed a Zero-Downtime Data Movement Platform that migrates petabyte-scale databases with traffic switches completing in milliseconds to 2 seconds.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/stripe-s-zero-downtime-data-movement-platform-migrates-petabytes-with-millisecond-traffic-switches-e0msys40v twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Stripe's Zero-Downtime Data Movement Platform Migrates Petabytes with Millisecond Traffic Switches | daily.dev og:description: Stripe developed a Zero-Downtime Data Movement Platform that migrates petabyte-scale databases with traffic switches completing in milliseconds to 2 seconds.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/stripe-s-zero-downtime-data-movement-platform-migrates-petabytes-with-millisecond-traffic-switches-e0msys40v og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/E0msyS40v.png og:image:alt: Stripe's Zero-Downtime Data Movement Platform Migrates Petabytes with Millisecond Traffic Switches og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Stripe's Zero-Downtime Data Movement Platform Migrates Petabytes with Millisecond Traffic Switches **[InfoQ](https://daily.dev/sources/infoq)** · 3 min read · 44 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Stripe developed a Zero-Downtime Data Movement Platform that migrates petabyte-scale databases with traffic switches completing in milliseconds to 2 seconds. The system handles 5 million queries per second across 2,000+ MongoDB shards using a six-phase process: migration registration, bulk import (10x faster through B-tree-optimized inserts), bidirectional async replication, validation, versioned gating for traffic cutover, and cleanup. The platform enables horizontal scaling, shard merging, version upgrades, and tenancy transitions while maintaining 99.9995% reliability for $1.4 trillion in annual transactions. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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