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

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Post by ten4backdoor » Thu, Nov 29, 2012, 3:41 PM UTC

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

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Post by James_Henry2 » Thu, Nov 29, 2012, 4:05 PM UTC

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

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

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Post by nasalgoat » Thu, Nov 29, 2012, 4:29 PM UTC

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

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

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Post by exabrial » Thu, Nov 29, 2012, 4:33 PM UTC

What is there system written in? just curious

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

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Post by Wisqnet » Thu, Nov 29, 2012, 4:40 PM UTC

exabrial wrote: post #4

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).

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

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Post by lnmx » Thu, Nov 29, 2012, 4:43 PM UTC

nasalgoat wrote: post #3

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

DHH describes a similar caching scheme here:

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3113-how-key-based-cache-expi...