Heroku

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.

Kafka is a distributed log for producers and consumers to publish messages to each other. We’ve done many shows about Kafka as a key building block for distributed systems, but we