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Nov 28, 2023 8 tweets 2 min read
That's a wrap on another incredible BFCM! You got a nerdy preview from @tobi, and we're back with the final stats. Let’s go!🧵👇

We achieved 99.999+% uptime, handling 29.7 PB of data served from across our infrastructure over the entire event! That’s over 5 TB/min. Taking a step back — preparing for an event of this magnitude doesn't happen spontaneously. We initiated load testing in April and refined both our forecast and capacity model for our merchants. A special thanks to our friends @GoogleCloud for their support this holiday season🙌
Nov 30, 2022 12 tweets 2 min read
Another Black Friday Cyber Monday (BFCM) weekend done and dusted!

We achieved 99.999+% uptime while averaging 3 Terabytes per minute of egress traffic across our infrastructure.

That’s 4.3 Petabytes per day! 🤯

Check out the thread for more awesome performance stats 🧵👇 🚢 Helping us stay on top of the traffic over BFCM, our MySQL fleet performed over 14 Million queries per second (QPS) at peak, averaging over 8.5 Million QPS throughout BFCM.
Nov 30, 2021 9 tweets 3 min read
2021 was our biggest Black Friday Cyber Monday ever! Together with our friends at @GoogleCloud we 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 🧵👇 ⏪ Rewinding for a moment — preparing for an event of this scale doesn't happen overnight. In anticipation of BFCM 2021 we began load testing back in July! To better simulate real global traffic we spread out our load generation across @GoogleCloud's global network. A chart showing load testing and peak CPU usage across Shopi
Oct 28, 2021 7 tweets 8 min read
Ready for #RubyConf2021? We'll be there with a full lineup speakers from Shopify and opportunities to get connected both on the ground and virtually! Tickets are still available here: rubyconf.org

Want to know what we have coming up? Follow along on this thread 👇 Shopify at RubyConf Denver 2021, November 8-10. 15 speakers, Take it easy on the first day of the conference because we'll pick things up on day two with talks from @tenderlove, @paracycle, @flavorjones, and @kddnewton! Plus later in the day we'll have an informal session at our booth that you won't want to miss... RubyConf 2021 Denver speaker promotional graphic featuring aRubyConf 2021 Denver speaker promotional graphic featuring aRubyConf 2021 Denver speaker promotional graphic featuring aRubyConf 2021 Denver speaker promotional graphic featuring a