Clip / Education

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.

What’s in it

Illustrates a real-world extreme risk/timing decision in database sharding for scale events, showing how fundamental write-scaling limits force architectural change.

Watch this moment

Clip transcript

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.