scott francis @planetscott

[email protected], enjoys computers, former Principal Production Engineer @ Shopify, ex-IBM, zinc-deficient planetscott.ca 🇨🇦 Joined November 2008

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scott francis @planetscott

a year ago

@asmah2107 patents.google.com/patent/US20220…

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scott francis @planetscott

2 years ago

@morgallant @pushrax @pushrax is a legend

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I would not be surprised if the current @Reddit outage was caused by the blackout protest from some of the larger subreddits. I could see the balancing/indexing of those subreddits being fairly bespoke, and now that they’re private it’s wrecking havoc on feed generation/caching

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scott francis @planetscott

3 years ago

@nateberkopec Way back in the day at Shopify @harrybrundage printed out and taped pages and pages of request logs to the wall. We would go through them to find queries to cache with identity cache. It works!

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scott francis @planetscott

3 years ago

@geejmasterflex IIRC you could cache=false it but there was still another caching layer in front of the database, specifically for endpoints like products.json

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scott francis @planetscott

3 years ago

@geejmasterflex Y’all caused a lot of mischief with your attempts to fetch uncached product endpoints. There was a bunch of stuff we did there too

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scott francis @planetscott

3 years ago

The reason Shopify can handle sales like this is the result of years of building up their systems and learning many painful lessons. A brief thread…

Logan Martel @martelogan

3 years ago

Killer to see the payoff for years of engineering Smoothest Checkout in the world now proven on Shopify for the world's largest flash-seller 🏔️

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scott francis @planetscott

3 years ago

Shopify makes this all look easy but it’s not. The reason the flash platform is so good today because of years of great engineering work by some very smart people, working under a ton of pressure to make commerce better for everyone ™ /fin

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scott francis @planetscott

3 years ago

I had to take time off when another merchant’s sale was botted so heavily that it took an entire Shopify region down and we had to figure out (within a few hours) how to allow them to have their sale without causing another massive disruption.