Shopify’s Infrastructure Collaboration with Google - Shopify

This post details Shopify's strategic decision to build its cloud infrastructure with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), specifically leveraging Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). It outlines the company's journey from its early days as a cloud company, through pragmatic infrastructure evolution including database and application sharding, to the adoption of Docker and then Kubernetes for container orchestration. The post highlights the migration of over 50% of data center workloads to GCP, the development of a Shop Mover tool for database shard rebalancing, and contributions to Grafeas for container governance. It also mentions the growth to over 400 production services and the development of a Platform as a Service (PaaS) on Kubernetes.