# Scaling Shopify's BFCM Live Map: An Apache Flink Redesign

DevFeed: [Scaling Shopify's BFCM Live Map: An Apache Flink Redesign](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/scaling-shopify-s-bfcm-live-map-an-apache-flink-redesign-1306.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://shopify.engineering/bfcm-live-map-2021-apache-flink-redesign>)

Author: Berkay Antmen

Published: 2021-12-10T19:00:00Z

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>), [apache-flink](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/apache-flink.md>), [Data Infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data-infrastructure.md>), [Scalability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/scalability.md>), [streaming-data-processing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/streaming-data-processing.md>)

Tags: [apache-flink](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apache-flink.md>), [data-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-infrastructure.md>), [scalability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scalability.md>), [shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/shopify.md>), [stateful](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/stateful.md>), [stream-processing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/stream-processing.md>), [streaming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/streaming.md>)

## AI overview

Shopify Data Platform Engineering redesigned the infrastructure behind the BFCM live map with Apache Flink to support more than 1.7 million merchants, richer insights, higher data volume, and higher uptime without manual intervention.

## Source excerpt

A deep dive into how Shopify Data revamped the data infrastructure powering our BFCM live map using Apache Flink.