System infrastructure tweaks Shopify made to handle the load of Cyber Monday

24 points by ten4backdoor 13 years ago | 5 comments

nasalgoat 13 years ago |

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

lnmx 13 years ago | |

DHH describes a similar caching scheme here:

James_Henry2 13 years ago |

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

exabrial 13 years ago |

What is there system written in? just curious

Wisqnet 13 years ago | |

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).