Shopify
E Commerce
Shopify

E-commerce platform powering millions of merchants with resilient infrastructure handling Black Friday peaks

Employees:10,000+
Revenue:$7B+
Founded:2006
HQ:Ottawa, Canada
Ticker:SHOP
Key Metrics
UsersMillions of merchants
Requests10M+ requests/min at peak
Uptime99.99%
Annual GMV$200B+
BFCM Peak Sales$9.3B
Checkout Speed<1 sec avg
Tech Stack
React
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
MySQL
Vitess
GCP
Apache Kafka
System Architecture

Modular Rails Monolith with Vitess

Shopify Architecture

Resilient E-commerce Platform

Merchants & Buyers

Online Stores
Liquid, React
Point of Sale
iOS, Android
Admin
React, Polaris

Edge Layer

CDN
Cloudflare
Edge Workers
Lua, Rust

Core Platform

Rails Monolith
Ruby, Rails
Checkout
Go, Optimized
Payments
Go

Data Layer

Vitess MySQL
1000+ shards
Redis
Cache, Sessions
Kafka
Event Stream

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Sources

https://shopify.engineeringhttps://github.com/Shopify

Last updated: 2024-12-01