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Harrison's avatar

Fascinating read! I’m Harrison, an ex fine dining line cook. My stack "The Secret Ingredient" adapts hit restaurant recipes for easy home cooking.

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goodluck literary's avatar

thats cool, so how has it been going?

Olivia's avatar

This is a great reminder that “boring” tech done really well beats constant rewrites. Shopify’s discipline around modularity, isolation, and incremental evolution is honestly more impressive than the raw scale numbers.

shoaib korai's avatar

really detailed article with key insights and shown efforts from shopify are inspirational

in terms of investing the tech on which their system is developed hatsoff

Abhinav Gupta's avatar

There is no mention around data replication and redistribution.

Whether it happens at a pod level? While the functionality exists for Redis, it does not exist for MySQL. So how is sharding happening? Is the number of shards decided and stays constant?

Dennis Shaka's avatar

This is such a great article. Keep posting more.