👾 How Shopify handled 1.27 million requests / s during Black Friday Cyber Monday?

Black Friday and Cyber Monday are one of the most prestigious days for E-commerce stores because 76% of customers want to benefit from buying during these days.

For online store owners it means maxing out the sales volumes. For online store platform providers a real headache.

Shopify shared some technical details about the impact of BFCM on their infrastructure.

Let's take a look at the numbers before we dive into how they handled it.

Black Friday Cyber Monday 2022 In Shopify By Numbers

Shopify had to process 4.3 Petabytes of transfer per day in their infrastructure. The most fragile part of the e-commerce architecture are databases.

Shopify MySQL server fleet had to handle a whopping number of 14kk queries per second.

kk is a unit equal to 1 million