# Pummelling the Platform-Performance Testing Shopify

DevFeed: [Pummelling the Platform-Performance Testing Shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/pummelling-the-platform-performance-testing-shopify-1518.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://shopify.engineering/performance-testing-shopify>)

Author: Chris Inch

Published: 2020-12-02T16:53:57Z

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: [Performance Testing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/performance-testing.md>), [Shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/shopify.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/systems.md>)

Tags: [events](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/events.md>), [experimentation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/experimentation.md>), [framework](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/framework.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [performance-testing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance-testing.md>), [sales](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sales.md>), [shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/shopify.md>), [testing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/testing.md>)

## AI overview

Shopify describes how it uses large-scale performance testing to prepare its platform for major sales events such as Black Friday Cyber Monday. The article covers load testing, stress testing, and an experimentation and regression framework for identifying bottlenecks and improving capacity over time.

## Source excerpt

Insight into the tools Shopify uses to raise confidence in our ability to serve large sales events, as well as the experimentation and regression framework built to ensure that we're getting better, week-over-week, at handling load.