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System infrastructure tweaks Shopify made to handle the load of Cyber Monday
- James_Henry2 14y agoIm surprised how transparent this is. Halfing response time on a system that large is no easy task.
- nasalgoat 14y agoMost of this is pretty standard scaling advice - except the "Tobi" caching, which has some good ideas I haven't seen elsewhere.
- lnmx 14y agoDHH describes a similar caching scheme here: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3113-how-key-based-cache-expiration-works http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3113-how-key-based-cache-expi...
- exabrial 14y agoWhat is there system written in? just curious
- Wisqnet 14y agoShopify 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).