The numbers are in, and they are staggering. If there was any doubt about who rules the e-commerce infrastructure game, Shopify just silenced it.
This Black Friday, merchants on the Shopify platform didn't just sell; they dominated. We are talking about a record-breaking $6.2 billion in total sales, marking a massive 25% year-over-year growth.
But the real story isn't just the dollars; it's the engineering marvel that powered them. While the world was shopping, Shopify’s infrastructure went into beast mode.
⚙️ The Scale: Absolute Engineering Insanity
For tech enthusiasts, the metrics Shopify released are nothing short of breathtaking. This is what it looks like when a platform operates at planetary scale:
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The Flood: At its peak, Shopify’s Edge network handled 489 million requests per minute. Let that sink in.
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Muscling Up: The application servers processed a peak of 117 million requests per minute—that is a 40% increase in capacity compared to last year.
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The Data Firehose: The database layer was under immense pressure and didn't flinch. We saw 53 million queries per second and over 2 million writes per second. Every single order, locked and loaded instantly.
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Traffic Monster: Shopify’s egress processed a mind-bending 237 billion requests throughout the event.
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Ecosystem Speed: The API layer alone processed over 31 million requests per minute at peak.
🚀 The Verdict
Shopify has proven once again that it is the "main character" of Black Friday. Handling that level of concurrency, write-heavy traffic, and global scale without breaking a sweat is the ultimate flex.
To the engineers who built this ship and the merchants who sailed it: Respect.