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Relational databases such as Postgres are often used for critical workloads, such as user account data. To run a relational database service in the cloud requires a cloud provider to set

This post was originally written by Gunar Gessner. Reposted with permission. In October we decided to make a horizontal investment in speed and decided to go monorepo with our services

Since about 2004 or so, Shopify has been a providing and easy to use platform for e-commerce businesses.  As a scrappy startup, Shopify built a monolith application, Shopify Core. With

Shopify runs more than 600,000 small business websites. When Shopify was figuring out how to scale, the engineering teams did not have a standard workflow for how to deploy and manage

When an application is using all of its available resources, that application needs to be scaled. Scaling an application means giving it more resources–typically servers.