Six billion reasons to cheer for Shopify

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Shopify merchants sold $6.2 billion on Black Friday, a 25% increase from last year.
Shopify's backend API peaked at 31 million requests per minute, with databases handling 53 million reads and 2 million writes per second.
Shopify is a major contributor to the Ruby on Rails framework and Ruby programming language, with significant open-source contributions.
Tobi Lütke, Shopify's CEO, remains actively involved in programming and contributes to Rails core.
Shopify employs nearly half of Rails' core contributors and has several Ruby core team members.
Shopify's success and technical challenges help improve and battle-test Rails and Ruby.
The author, a friend of Tobi and Shopify board member, praises Shopify's impact on the Ruby on Rails ecosystem.

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