# Cloud, Load, and Modular Code: What 2022 Looks Like for Shopify

DevFeed: [Cloud, Load, and Modular Code: What 2022 Looks Like for Shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/cloud-load-and-modular-code-what-2022-looks-like-for-shopify-1345.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://shopify.engineering/cloud-load-modular-code-shopify-2022>)

Author: Allan Leinwand

Published: 2022-01-20T23:24:21Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering.md>), [Shopify Engineering - Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering-shopify-engineering.md>)

Topics: [Shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/shopify.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>), [Caching](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/caching.md>), [MySQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mysql.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/systems.md>), [Network](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/network.md>), [IO](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/io.md>), [User Experience](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/user-experience.md>)

Tags: [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [caching](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/caching.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [network](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/network.md>), [server](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/server.md>), [shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/shopify.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/systems.md>), [user-experience](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/user-experience.md>), [web](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web.md>)

## AI overview

Shopify's article describes the engineering challenges created by rapid commerce growth and increasingly large flash-sale traffic. It reviews 2021 BFCM scale across app servers, load balancers, APIs, webhooks, caching, network egress, and MySQL, then discusses plans to build scalable products and resilient infrastructure for a more global, mobile, social, and platform-diverse future.

## Source excerpt

Shopify CTO Allan Leinwand outlines some of the company's biggest engineering priorities for 2022.