Upgrade to Pro
— share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …
Speaker Deck
Features
Speaker Deck
PRO
Sign in
Sign up for free
Search
Search
Tips and Tricks from Shopify's codebase
Search
Christian Joudrey
May 23, 2014
Programming
2
570
Tips and Tricks from Shopify's codebase
Talk given at Montreal.rb on May 20th, 2014
Christian Joudrey
May 23, 2014
Tweet
Share
More Decks by Christian Joudrey
See All by Christian Joudrey
Writing NES games! with assembly!!
cjoudrey
1
750
Developing at Scale
cjoudrey
3
490
Scaling Rails for Black Friday / Cyber Monday at Shopify
cjoudrey
6
5.9k
Scaling Shopify
cjoudrey
3
540
#pairwithme
cjoudrey
3
260
Two-factor authentication
cjoudrey
4
390
Automate your Infrastructure with Chef
cjoudrey
9
620
Other Decks in Programming
See All in Programming
[堅牢.py #1] テストを書かない研究者に送る、最初にテストを書く実験コード入門 / Let's start your ML project by writing tests
shunk031
11
6k
Honoを技術選定したAI要件定義プラットフォームAcsimでの意思決定
codenote
0
270
Full-Cycle Reactivity in Angular: SignalStore mit Signal Forms und Resources
manfredsteyer
PRO
0
130
JJUG CCC 2025 Fall: Virtual Thread Deep Dive
ternbusty
3
490
Building AI with AI
inesmontani
PRO
1
260
イベントストーミングのはじめかた / Getting Started with Event Storming
nrslib
1
740
30分でDoctrineの仕組みと使い方を完全にマスターする / phpconkagawa 2025 Doctrine
ttskch
3
550
モダンJSフレームワークのビルドプロセス 〜なぜReactは503行、Svelteは12行なのか〜
fuuki12
0
120
JEP 496 と JEP 497 から学ぶ耐量子計算機暗号入門 / Learning Post-Quantum Crypto Basics from JEP 496 & 497
mackey0225
2
490
Private APIの呼び出し方
kishikawakatsumi
3
900
Vueで学ぶデータ構造入門 リンクリストとキューでリアクティビティを捉える / Vue Data Structures: Linked Lists and Queues for Reactivity
konkarin
1
350
TypeScriptで設計する 堅牢さとUXを両立した非同期ワークフローの実現
moeka__c
5
2.5k
Featured
See All Featured
For a Future-Friendly Web
brad_frost
180
10k
Agile that works and the tools we love
rasmusluckow
331
21k
Building a Modern Day E-commerce SEO Strategy
aleyda
45
8.1k
Designing for humans not robots
tammielis
254
26k
Mobile First: as difficult as doing things right
swwweet
225
10k
Design and Strategy: How to Deal with People Who Don’t "Get" Design
morganepeng
132
19k
The Illustrated Children's Guide to Kubernetes
chrisshort
51
51k
We Have a Design System, Now What?
morganepeng
54
7.9k
Fashionably flexible responsive web design (full day workshop)
malarkey
407
66k
[RailsConf 2023] Rails as a piece of cake
palkan
57
6.1k
Practical Orchestrator
shlominoach
190
11k
Keith and Marios Guide to Fast Websites
keithpitt
413
23k
Transcript
tips and tricks from Shopify’s codebase
None
None
None
measure it! if it moves...
statsd
None
Liquid::Template.extend StatsD::Instrument ! Liquid::Template.statsd_measure :render, 'Liquid.Template.render'
PaymentProcessingJob.statsd_count :perform, 'PaymentProcessingJob.processed'
None
None
slow queries
# User@Host: shopify[shopify] @ [127.0.0.1] # Thread_id: 264419969 Schema: shopify
Last_errno: 0 Killed: 0 # Query_time: 0.150491 Lock_time: 0.000057 Rows_sent: 1 Rows_examined: 147841 Rows_affected: 0 Rows_read: 147841 # Bytes_sent: 1214 Tmp_tables: 0 Tmp_disk_tables: 0 Tmp_table_sizes: 0 # InnoDB_trx_id: FF7021AAA # QC_Hit: No Full_scan: No Full_join: No Tmp_table: No Tmp_table_on_disk: No # Filesort: Yes Filesort_on_disk: No Merge_passes: 0 # InnoDB_IO_r_ops: 0 InnoDB_IO_r_bytes: 0 InnoDB_IO_r_wait: 0.000000 # InnoDB_rec_lock_wait: 0.000000 InnoDB_queue_wait: 0.000000 # InnoDB_pages_distinct: 475 SET timestamp=1393385020; SELECT `discounts`.* FROM `discounts` WHERE `discounts`.`shop_id` = 1745470 AND `discounts`.`status` = 'enabled' ORDER BY ISNULL(ends_at) DESC, ends_at DESC LIMIT 1
None
# User@Host: shopify[shopify] @ [127.0.0.1] # Thread_id: 264419969 Schema: shopify
Last_errno: 0 Killed: 0 # Query_time: 0.150491 Lock_time: 0.000057 Rows_sent: 1 Rows_examined: 147841 Rows_affected: 0 Rows_read: 147841 # Bytes_sent: 1214 Tmp_tables: 0 Tmp_disk_tables: 0 Tmp_table_sizes: 0 # InnoDB_trx_id: FF7021AAA # QC_Hit: No Full_scan: No Full_join: No Tmp_table: No Tmp_table_on_disk: No # Filesort: Yes Filesort_on_disk: No Merge_passes: 0 # InnoDB_IO_r_ops: 0 InnoDB_IO_r_bytes: 0 InnoDB_IO_r_wait: 0.000000 # InnoDB_rec_lock_wait: 0.000000 InnoDB_queue_wait: 0.000000 # InnoDB_pages_distinct: 475 SET timestamp=1393385020; SELECT `discounts`.* FROM `discounts` WHERE `discounts`.`shop_id` = 1745470 AND `discounts`.`status` = 'enabled' ORDER BY ISNULL(ends_at) DESC, ends_at DESC LIMIT 1 /*application:Shopify,controller:orders,action:pay*/
determining root cause
https://github.com/snormore/nginx-x-rid-header nginx request_id header proxy_set_header X-Request-ID "$request_id"; log_format main '...
$request_id' step 1
https://gist.github.com/mnutt/566725 Complete 200 OK in 100ms (Views: 60ms | ActiveRecord:
40ms | request_id=bc12813bce...) log_process_action ActionController::Instrumentation step 2
https://github.com/basecamp/marginalia User Load (0.3ms) SELECT `users`.* FROM `users` WHERE `users`.`id`
= 1 LIMIT 1 /*application:Shopify, controller:users,action:show, request_id:bc12813bce...*/ basecamp/marginalia step 3
# User@Host: shopify[shopify] @ [127.0.0.1] # Thread_id: 264419969 Schema: shopify
Last_errno: 0 Killed: 0 # Query_time: 0.150491 Lock_time: 0.000057 Rows_sent: 1 Rows_examined: 147841 Rows_affected: 0 Rows_read: 147841 # Bytes_sent: 1214 Tmp_tables: 0 Tmp_disk_tables: 0 Tmp_table_sizes: 0 # InnoDB_trx_id: FF7021AAA # QC_Hit: No Full_scan: No Full_join: No Tmp_table: No Tmp_table_on_disk: No # Filesort: Yes Filesort_on_disk: No Merge_passes: 0 # InnoDB_IO_r_ops: 0 InnoDB_IO_r_bytes: 0 InnoDB_IO_r_wait: 0.000000 # InnoDB_rec_lock_wait: 0.000000 InnoDB_queue_wait: 0.000000 # InnoDB_pages_distinct: 475 SET timestamp=1393385020; SELECT `discounts`.* FROM `discounts` WHERE `discounts`.`shop_id` = 1745470 AND `discounts`.`status` = 'enabled' ORDER BY ISNULL(ends_at) DESC, ends_at DESC LIMIT 1 /*application:Shopify,controller:orders,action:pay, request_id:bc12813bce...*/ profit!
access.log rails.log slow_query.log profit! (2)
bonus! background jobs
schema migration with zero downtime
None
orders 20140520_orders
insert/delete/update triggers
INSERT INTO ... SELECT ... insert/delete/update triggers
async caveat
tracking exceptions
None
None
None
None
thanks! :)