Session Hijacking Protection - Shopify

Shopify has evolved its approach to managing webserver connection handling and request dropping mechanisms to improve application resilience under high load. This includes developing dynamic query rules for ProxySQL to reroute, rewrite, or reject database queries, and implementing a tool to manage these rules at scale across thousands of instances. The system incorporates a dry-run mode for query rules to prevent accidental data corruption or downtime, and employs exponential backoff for logging