// Hacker Noon · 2 March 2026

Shopify's Secret to Handling Billions in Sales

Shopify powers massive Black Friday Cyber Monday traffic with a modular Ruby on Rails monolith instead of microservices. Internal domains enforce strict boundaries, while “Pods” shard stores into isolated infrastructure units to limit blast radius. Apps integrate externally via GraphQL APIs and webh...

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