ShopifyDifficulty: Advanced
How we prepare Shopify for BFCM
Shopify's approach to preparing infrastructure for massive seasonal traffic spikes through simulation, chaos engineering, and bottleneck identification.
Interview angle
How do you prepare a large-scale platform to handle predictable but extreme traffic events?
- Failure / topic
Handling extreme traffic spikes during seasonal events like Black Friday and Cyber Monday
- Source
- shopify.engineering