How Shopify Dynamically Routes Storefront Traffic

How Shopify Dynamically Routes Storefront Traffic

摘要

In 2019 we set out to rewrite the Shopify storefront implementation. Our goal was to make it faster. We talked about the strategies we used to achieve that goal in a previous post about optimizing server-side rendering and implementing efficient caching. To build on that post, I’ll go into detail on how the Storefront Renderer team tweaked our load balancers to shift traffic between the legacy storefront and the new storefront.