Shopify Engineering

Shopify powers millions of businesses in more than 175 countries with essential commerce infrastructure. Our engineers and developers work on challenging and impactful projects spanning frontend, backend, mobile and data.

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We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations and it scaled

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How we used SKIP LOCKED, composite primary keys, and connection visibility to hit our scale targets.