Shopify’s Architecture to Handle 80K RPS Celebrity Sales Simon Eskildsen – @Sirupsen Production Engineering Lead, Shopify Shopify is handling some of the largest sales in the world from Kylie Jenner, Kanye, Superbowl, and others — Tobi Lütke, CEO in internal essay on why we optimize for flash sales “We learned to absorb these shocks and become stronger as a result. [..] The school of hard knocks h