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Shopify's Modular Monolith and Pods: Surviving Flash Sales
How Shopify stayed on a modular Rails monolith and isolated flash-sale blast radius with pod-based sharding instead of splitting into microservices.
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How Shopify stayed on a modular Rails monolith and isolated flash-sale blast radius with pod-based sharding instead of splitting into microservices.
Airbnb's honest account of splitting its Rails monolith into services, the sprawl it caused, and the platform investment that fixed it.