How We Deploy Shopify

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Shopify runs one of the largest Rails apps, benchmarked at 25,000 requests per second and powering about 243,000 businesses. Deploys use a Capistrano script and an open-source UI (Shipit) to push a revision, start supervisor daemons, and roll five containers per host; about 200 hosts exist. Team deploys ~30 times per day, each deploy taking ~3–4 minutes (peak 41/day). Deploy failures show as flapping when a host runs mixed revisions; standard remedy is an application restart.

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1. 0:00Shopify introduction
2. 1:15Shopify scale challenges
3. 3:19Deployment tool
4. 5:48Deploy failures
5. 7:33Traffic during deploys
6. 10:25Container capacity
7. 12:15Restarts vs deploys
8. 15:04Data center strategy
9. 16:53Summary & Q&A

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