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Microservices aren't always the answer. Learn why Shopify — processing 284 million requests per minute on Black Friday — chose a modular monolith over microservices, and how you can apply the same architecture in Java/Spring Boot.
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Shopify processes some of the highest traffic loads anywhere. Behind the scenes, a streaming event core built on Apache Kafka enables this scale by decoupling services, enabling real-time analytics, and powering machine learning workflows.