System infrastructure tweaks Shopify made to handle the load of Cyber Monday (opens in new tab)

(shopify.com)

24 pointsten4backdoor13y ago5 comments

5 comments

Most of this is pretty standard scaling advice - except the "Tobi" caching, which has some good ideas I haven't seen elsewhere.

lnmx13y ago

DHH describes a similar caching scheme here:

Im surprised how transparent this is. Halfing response time on a system that large is no easy task.

What is there system written in? just curious

Shopify itself is written in Ruby using the Rails framework. I believe we're one of the oldest and largest Rails projects out there.

Some parts of our infrastructure are written in other frameworks (e.g. Thin) and languages (e.g. Go).

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