Scaling Rails for Black Friday and Cyber Monday

Shopify is an e-commerce platform that powers over 100,000 online shops such as Budweiser and Tesla. During the weekend of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, the platform gets hit with over a million requests per minute resulting in over 6,000 orders per minute (~50 million dollars.)

Learn how we scale our Rails app and the measures (load testing, monitoring, caching, browser tests, etc.) we take to ensure that there are no hiccups.