System infrastructure tweaks Shopify made to handle the load of Cyber Monday (shopify.com) 24 points by ten4backdoor 13y ago ↗ HN
[–] James_Henry2 13y ago ↗ Im surprised how transparent this is. Halfing response time on a system that large is no easy task.
[–] nasalgoat 13y ago ↗ Most of this is pretty standard scaling advice - except the "Tobi" caching, which has some good ideas I haven't seen elsewhere. [–] lnmx 13y ago ↗ DHH describes a similar caching scheme here:http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3113-how-key-based-cache-expi...
[–] lnmx 13y ago ↗ DHH describes a similar caching scheme here:http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3113-how-key-based-cache-expi...
[–] exabrial 13y ago ↗ What is there system written in? just curious [–] Wisqnet 13y ago ↗ 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).
[–] Wisqnet 13y ago ↗ 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).
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Some parts of our infrastructure are written in other frameworks (e.g. Thin) and languages (e.g. Go).