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Author here. Keep in mind Shopify does scale horizontally in terms of servers. They are just scaling a monolithic application. Those 600k shop owners results
by nickjj 8y ago
Author here.
Keep in mind Shopify does scale horizontally in terms of servers. They are just scaling a monolithic application.
Those 600k shop owners results in Shopify's platform handling over 80,000 requests per second according to stats that are publicly available[0].
It's one of the largest scale Rails apps in production.
[0]: https://twitter.com/dhh/status/885776244532551680 https://twitter.com/dhh/status/885776244532551680
- yakshaving_jgt 8y agoThanks for the clarification, but it doesn't negate my point. It supports the idea that "scaling" is a lousy motivation for my team to adopt microservices.