A Bug in Stripe Caused by AWS Lambda Serverless Design (Container re-use)

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

English - February 17, 2021 02:47 - 15 minutes - 10.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
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From time to time I like to loiter on people’s GitHub Repos look through issues submitted and see if there are interesting hidden gems and bugs that would make a good lesson or learning experience and boy did I find one for you. This bug is caused in stripe-node code in AWS Lambda serverless environment where requests are failing intermittently. We discuss how AWS serverless container re-use can cause this and how stripe solved it. Resources https://github.com/stripe/stripe-node/issues/1040 Intermittent Error: write EPIPE when running stripe client in AWS Lambda · Issue #1040 · stripe/stripe-node · GitHub https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/container-reuse-in-lambda/