Engineering a Historic Moment: Shopify Gets Ready for Cannabis in Canada - Shopify

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This post details the creation of a new regional infrastructure in Montreal to support regulated industries like cannabis sales in Canada. This involved setting up new Google Cloud Platform projects, utilizing Google Kubernetes Engine and Google Compute Engine, and configuring infrastructure with Terraform. It also describes the extensive load testing and pre-mortem discussions undertaken to prepare for high traffic volumes and potential security threats. Furthermore, it outlines the technical measures implemented to ensure personal information is stored within Canada, including application-level libraries, network firewall rules, container security, and SSL certificate management.