Browse past weeks of engineering reads.
Determining which types of evidence are most effective at helping merchants win disputed transactions classified as 'product not received' to reduce chargeback losses.
How to extract and analyze spending pattern insights from a massive distributed payment dataset across 250 million customers to identify emerging market trends.
Enable businesses to efficiently monetize global demand by handling the complexity of localized payments, multi-currency transactions, fraud detection, and tax compliance across different regions.
How to enable AI agents to autonomously execute commerce transactions while maintaining Stripe's reliability and payment processing standards.
Vertical SaaS platforms needed to expand their service offerings beyond pure software to include integrated payments, financial services, and agentic commerce capabilities to build more defensible and durable businesses.
Building reliable payment and commerce systems that can handle autonomous AI agents as buyers, which introduce new failure modes and consistency requirements not present in traditional e-commerce.
Detecting and preventing first-party fraud at scale across a payment network where legitimate users abuse policies through multiple accounts, free trial cycling, and refund exploitation.
How to make payment infrastructure more programmable while maintaining reliability across a global distributed network and enabling new use cases like AI economic infrastructure.
Enable autonomous agents to programmatically access payment instruments and execute transactions without requiring human intervention or direct card/account access.
Enable autonomous agents and machines to initiate and complete payments programmatically over the internet without requiring human intermediation.