Shopify modular monolith scaled to 30 TB per minute during Cyber Monday

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5 years ago

Shopify uses a modular monolith architecture built with Ruby on Rails and MySQL.

2021 was their biggest Black Friday Cyber Monday Together with the Google Cloud infrastructure team, they achieved near-perfect uptime while averaging ~30TB/min of egress traffic across our infrastructure. That’s a massive ~43PB/day!

Here are some of the most interesting stats

https://twitter.com/ShopifyEng/status/1465806691543531525

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