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Sharding at Shopify cut over a week before Black Friday
From Fireside Chat: Simon Eskildsen on Building Turbopuffer · ≈10:09
Illustrates a real-world extreme risk/timing decision in database sharding for scale events, showing how fundamental write-scaling limits force architectural change.
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- Illustrates a real-world extreme risk/timing decision in database sharding for scale events, showing how fundamental write-scaling limits force architectural change.
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spent time orchestrating. So we were doing sharding because as um my my dear boss Camilo used to say you can't cache rights. So there's a fundamental point where you you just you have to move beyond a single shard. Um so I wasn't I joined around the time and they did the sharding and they did it I think they did the cut over a week before Black Friday which is mindblowing.
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