Six billion reasons to cheer for Shopify

Shopify processed $6.2 billion in sales on Black Friday 2025, a 25% increase from the previous year, handling 31 million API requests per minute and 53 million database reads per minute. The company, led by founder and programmer Tobi Lütke, continues to drive significant contributions to the Ruby and Rails ecosystems, employing nearly half of Rails core contributors and funding major improvements like YJIT and Ractors. This success demonstrates the scalability potential of Ruby on Rails at massive scale.