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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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Shipping Hundreds of Times a Day: Shopify's Merge Queue and Deploy Pipeline
How Shopify keeps a single large Rails monolith deployable dozens of times daily using merge queues, canaries, and fast automated rollback.
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Background Jobs at Shopify Scale: Idempotency, Retries, and Interruptibility
How Shopify runs enormous volumes of background jobs safely, treating idempotency and graceful interruption as first-class design constraints.
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StorefrontRenderer: Pulling Storefronts Out of the Monolith for Speed
Shopify rebuilt storefront rendering as a dedicated service to cut page load times, separating buyer-facing traffic from the core Rails monolith.
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Game Days: How Shopify Rehearses for Its Biggest Traffic Day of the Year
Shopify runs months of scripted load tests and failure drills against production infrastructure to prepare for Black Friday Cyber Monday.
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Betting on Ruby: How Shopify Made Rails Fast Enough for Commerce
Shopify funded a just-in-time compiler for Ruby instead of rewriting its monolith, turning YJIT into a core piece of commerce infrastructure.
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