Stripe is an Irish-American financial services and software as a service company dual-headquartered in South San Francisco, California, United States and Dublin, Ireland. The company primarily offers payment processing software and APIs for e-commerce websites and mobile applications.

Pub/Sub allows services to communicate asynchronously, with latencies on the order of 100 milliseconds. Pub/Sub is used for streaming analytics and data integration pipelines to ingest and distribute data. It's equally effective as a messaging-oriented middleware for service integration or as a queue to parallelize tasks.