But, but... Rails doesn't scale!!!!!
The dashboard shows 25k orders per minute right now (~400/s). A modern server shouldn't even be close to 1% utilization to handle that.
Creating an order isn't a stateless process.
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#72But, but... Rails doesn't scale!!!!!
This page doesn't answer that question because it doesn't include how many servers are being used to handle it.
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#73Amazing how concentrated the wealth of the world is.
I find it interesting that of as I look (around 18:00 GMT) that there is so much traffic in GB but not the other parts in europe.
Image reference: https://i.imgur.com/2Les0QX.png
Is it safe to assume that brexit is the reason?
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#74What library is used to make the frontend globe rendering? Its pretty fast and not laggy on my chrome browser.
We built it from scratch with React Three Fiber, a React library on top of three.js. Super powerful framework. We'll be doing a full technical breakdown in a few weeks :)
Are the obvious reasons that there is so much more activity in GB and RU than other parts in europe others than one can assume (brexit, sanctions)?
I would love to read about changing patterns because of real life events. (Like the rumour that american water plants have problems during superbowl commercials because of toilet flushing but in a larger scale)
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#75Amazing how concentrated the wealth of the world is.
I find it interesting that of as I look (around 18:00 GMT) that there is so much traffic in GB but not the other parts in europe. Image reference: https://i.imgur.com/2Les0QX.png Is it safe to assume that brexit is the reason?
I don't see how Brexit could be part of the reason. Unless the economy is so bad more people are determined to find a bargain.
There's more Black Friday marketing in Britain than some other European countries, and maybe more use of an American credit card based shopping platform.
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#76Amazing how concentrated the wealth of the world is.
I find it interesting that of as I look (around 18:00 GMT) that there is so much traffic in GB but not the other parts in europe. Image reference: https://i.imgur.com/2Les0QX.png Is it safe to assume that brexit is the reason?
Probably the fact that Black Friday is an American phenomenon that is successfully exported to mainly Anglo countries. Doesn't impact mainland Europe as much.
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
Other measures indicate similar concentration in roughly the same places (excl. maybe China), such as a light pollution (indicator of energy usage): https://www.lightpollutionmap.info/
China obviously, there's not much they wouldn't just buy on domestic platforms using domestic payment services, but almost all of Asia is pretty dark on Shopify, compared to your map. I guess they're just not a thing there, plus maybe black friday itself. Also, the UK is disproportionately brighter on the Shopify map compared to the rest of Europe. Interestingly, light pollution seems pretty low in Germany compared t…
It was either night or very late evening in most of Asia when you wrote that comment.
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
I find it interesting that of as I look (around 18:00 GMT) that there is so much traffic in GB but not the other parts in europe. Image reference: https://i.imgur.com/2Les0QX.png Is it safe to assume that brexit is the reason?
Probably the fact that Black Friday is an American phenomenon that is successfully exported to mainly Anglo countries. Doesn't impact mainland Europe as much.
Black friday is not small in europe. We (germany) have BF ads all around.
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#79The 'carbon removed' figure is so extremely cringe
Do you have any better criticism than that something is "cringe"? Otherwise this reads like something a teenager would write.
It's obviously utter nonsense. No serious and/or somewhat intelligent person could interpret said figure to have any useful meaning or need this explained to them. It's just plain bullshit.
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#80What is their basis for the "Carbon Removed" stat?
Hilarious, should be carbon added by all this unnecessary consumption made easy by them.
Blaming a reduction in transaction costs for increased consumption is seriously missing the mark. I don't know if there's data for this, but I can imagine that by improving the online shopping experience Shopify could have reduced the amount of unnecessary physical shopping trips thereby indirectly reducing carbon emissions.
This analysis out of MIT would support that theory: https://ctl.mit.edu/pub/thesis/environmental-analysis-us-onl...
Fortunately, you are not the dictator of "necessary" consumption.