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
580
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
760
Developing at Scale
cjoudrey
3
500
Scaling Rails for Black Friday / Cyber Monday at Shopify
cjoudrey
6
6k
Scaling Shopify
cjoudrey
3
560
#pairwithme
cjoudrey
3
260
Two-factor authentication
cjoudrey
4
400
Automate your Infrastructure with Chef
cjoudrey
9
630
Other Decks in Programming
See All in Programming
2026/02/04 AIキャラクター人格の実装論 口 調の模倣から、コンテキスト制御による 『思想』と『行動』の創発へ
sr2mg4
0
580
AIプロダクト時代のQAエンジニアに求められること
imtnd
1
450
ご飯食べながらエージェントが開発できる。そう、Agentic Engineeringならね。
yokomachi
1
250
生成AIを使ったコードレビューで定性的に品質カバー
chiilog
1
300
kintone + ローカルLLM = ?
akit37
0
110
CSC307 Lecture 11
javiergs
PRO
0
580
ふん…おもしれぇ Parser。RubyKaigi 行ってやるぜ
aki_pin0
0
110
AIに仕事を丸投げしたら、本当に楽になれるのか
dip_tech
PRO
0
150
「ブロックテーマでは再現できない」は本当か?
inc2734
0
1.1k
Apache Iceberg V3 and migration to V3
tomtanaka
0
210
CSC307 Lecture 06
javiergs
PRO
0
700
Geminiの機能を調べ尽くしてみた
naruyoshimi
0
150
Featured
See All Featured
Leading Effective Engineering Teams in the AI Era
addyosmani
9
1.6k
Noah Learner - AI + Me: how we built a GSC Bulk Export data pipeline
techseoconnect
PRO
0
120
Exploring the Power of Turbo Streams & Action Cable | RailsConf2023
kevinliebholz
37
6.3k
Agile Actions for Facilitating Distributed Teams - ADO2019
mkilby
0
120
Mozcon NYC 2025: Stop Losing SEO Traffic
samtorres
0
160
How to train your dragon (web standard)
notwaldorf
97
6.5k
The innovator’s Mindset - Leading Through an Era of Exponential Change - McGill University 2025
jdejongh
PRO
1
100
Bootstrapping a Software Product
garrettdimon
PRO
307
120k
CSS Pre-Processors: Stylus, Less & Sass
bermonpainter
360
30k
Navigating Weather and Climate Data
rabernat
0
120
First, design no harm
axbom
PRO
2
1.1k
Typedesign – Prime Four
hannesfritz
42
3k
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! :)