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Shopify is massive. It has grown to a small collection of specialized services but the monolith is still the main backend and the traffic is database heavy and transactional, it’s not just dumb cache reads.

Tens of millions RPMs is the baseline and there’s massive, massive spikes for Black Friday or high profile events

It’s not Facebook/Google/Netflix traffic but it’s up there. Language is very rarely the bottleneck that people think it is