Horizontally scaling the Rails backend of Shop app with Vitess
Shopify's Shop app adopted Vitess to shard its Rails backend, covering keyspace design and the migration plan.
- Published
- 2024-01-17
- Scale
- Not stated in source
- Techniques
- horizontal sharding database migration
- Stack
- MySQL Vitess Ruby on Rails
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- Railway · Deploy something like this on Railway: spin up MySQL and Ruby on Rails plus your app in a few clicks. New accounts get $20 in credit (applied when you pick a paid plan).
Railway isn't part of Shopify's setup in this story. It's just an easy place to try the same building blocks.
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