Future Proofing Our Cloud Storage Usage - Shopify

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This post details the implementation of a strategy to mitigate S3 'SlowDown' exceptions and reduce latencies by prefixing asset operations with a hash-generated digest. This digest is derived from the shop ID and asset path, effectively distributing writes across more S3 partitions. The change was applied to new shops and led to a significant drop in SlowDown events and a reduction in median and 95th percentile latencies for S3 GET operations.