Name: Keynote: One Deploy Plane, Every Runtime: How Shopify Generalized Cloud Native Beyond Kubernetes - Aqeel Nazeer, Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Shopify
Start: 2026-06-19T10:51:00+0530
End: 2026-06-19T10:54:00+0530

18-19 June
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Keynote: One Deploy Plane, Every Runtime: How Shopify Generalized Cloud Native Beyond Kubernetes - Aqeel Nazeer, Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Shopify

Friday June 19, 2026 10:51am - 10:54am IST

Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

At Shopify, applications don't all live on Kubernetes. They live on Kubernetes, on VMs, and on serverless. Hundreds of services across multiple regions, reached through a single deploy plane. At peak last Black Friday, this fleet served 489 million requests per minute and ran across 3.18 million CPU cores.

None of this would exist without the CNCF ecosystem. A request to Shopify flows through a layered edge — CDN, regional load balancers, and tenant-routing proxies — before reaching a workload on Kubernetes, VMs, or serverless. In this keynote, we walk through how Kubernetes, Envoy with xDS, custom resources and controllers, and an observability stack built on Prometheus, Thanos, and OpenTelemetry compose into a single orchestrator that ships code safely across every runtime in our fleet — with phased traffic shifting, automated rollback against live error metrics, and an audit trail expressed in git.

Attendees will leave with a mental model for using cloud-native primitives to build a deploy control plane that scales beyond Kubernetes. This is the story of what cloud native makes possible when AI is writing the code faster than humans can review it — and the deploys still have to be safe.

Speakers

Aqeel Nazeer

Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Shopify

Aqeel Nazeer is a Senior Infrastructure Engineer on Shopify's Continuous Deployment team, where he builds the systems that ship code safely across Shopify's global fleet. He focuses on deploy infrastructure that keeps pace with AI-accelerated engineering without sacrificing safety... Read More →

Friday June 19, 2026 10:51am - 10:54am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

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