Rails at Scale
Adrianna Chang
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2023-01-04 •
Adrianna Chang
How We Scaled Maintenance Tasks to Shopify's Core Monolith
In 2020, we built the maintenance_tasks gem as a solution for performing data migrations in Rails applications. Adopting the gem in Shopify’s core Rails monolith was not so simple, however! We had to adapt the gem to fit Core’s sharded architecture and to handle data migrations across millions of rows. Let’s take a look at how we did it.