Bonjour! We’re off to Paris for the Paris.rb conf from taking place from June 28 - 29, 2018. This conference is designed to bring together Ruby enthusiasts from all over the world, to learn what’s new in Ruby and connect with each other. Our developers, Rafael França and Jenna Blumenthal, will be presenting the talks below:
Get pumped! This March, Shopify engineers will be speaking at SREcon Americas in Santa Clara, CA, USA! This three-day conference runs from March 27-29, 2018, and is dedicated to highlighting excellence, best practices, and thought leadership in the areas of engineering resilience, reliability, and scalability. Shopify engineers will be giving presentations on several topics, ranging from software engineer lesso
LISA Conference happens from November 1 to 3, and two of our devs, Daniella Niyonkuru and Jake Pittis, will dive into production engineering life at Shopify.
We’re headed to GraphQL Summit! The conference will run from October 25 to October 26, and will feature a talk from one of our very own, Leanne Shapton. She'll be joined by a bevy of Shopifolk. In addition, we're also a proud sponsor of the diversity scholarship, helping five attendees travel to the summit.
Get excited because production engineers from Shopify will be speaking at this year's SREcon Europe in Dublin, Ireland! The conference runs from Aug 30 to September 1, and presentations will feature topics ranging from scriptable load balancers to resiliency testing with toxiproxy.
If you’re headed to Velocity, happening June 20 to 22 in San Jose, come say hello! We’re excited to have two talks from our production engineering team.
Scriptable load balancers - Emil Stolarsky and Justin Li
Flash sales have been a prominent marketing tool to get a high volume of customers in a short period of time. From people rushing to the Kylie Cosmetics store, to the much anticipated Cyber Monday deals. A tool we use to manage these activities are scriptable load balancers. This tool works with Nginx and LuaJIT via OpenResty to quickly handle difficult infrastructural problems that can occur.
Emil and Justin will run through how scriptable load balancers allow us to deal with flash sales, DDoS attacks, and solve sharding data centers.
Wednesday, June 21, 11:25 am to 12:05 pm - Location: LL21 C/D
Genesis: Automation data center management - David Radcliffe
Automation is essential to increasing the speed of capacity management. In previous years a Google sheet was used to keep track of our data centers, until we adopted Tumblr’s Collins, an inventory management tool. A hack day project During the presentation, David will explore some of the tools, such as Genesis, for a faster automation of our data centers.
Thursday, June 22, 1:15 pm to 1:55 pm - Location: LL21 C/D
See you there! And to whet your appetite, here's a video from one of our speakers last year, Flo Weingarten, talking about our multitenant architecture across multiple data centres!
Shopify production engineering will be at SREcon Americas 2017, held on March 13 and 14. We'll be sharing our best practices and the lessons we’ve learned along the way.
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Production engineers from Shopify will be crossing the pond to speak at SREcon Europe from July 11 to 13, 2016 in Dublin, Ireland. From flash sale engineering to fuzz testing to multi-tenant architecture across multiple data centers, we got you covered!
RailsConf is tomorrow! For the first time, the conference will be in Kansas City, known for jazz and barbeque and home to the Royals. If you're heading down, here are the details for the five presentations we'll be giving:
How We Deploy Shopify - Kat Drobnjakovic
Shopify is one of the largest Rails apps in the world and yet remains to be massively scalable and reliable. The platform is able to manage large spikes in traffic that accompany events such as new product releases, holiday shopping seasons and flash sales, and has been benchmarked to process over 25,000 requests per second, all while powering more than 243,000 businesses. Even at such a large scale, all our developers still get to push to master and deploy Shopify in 3 minutes. Let's break down everything that can happen when deploying Shopify or any really big Rails app.
Wednesday, May 4, 11:40 am to 12:20 pm, Room 3501 G