Shopify Engineering
Make Great Decisions Quickly with TOMASP
As technical leaders and managers, our job is to make the right decision most of the time. Hiring, firing, technology choices, software architecture, and project prioritization are examples of high...
Make Great Decisions Quickly with TOMASP
As technical leaders and managers, our job is to make the right decision most of the time. Hiring, firing, technology choices, software architecture, and project prioritization are examples of high...
Five Common Data Stores and When to Use Them
An important part of any technical design is choosing where to store your data. Does it conform to a schema or is it flexible in structure? Does it need to...
Five Common Data Stores and When to Use Them
An important part of any technical design is choosing where to store your data. Does it conform to a schema or is it flexible in structure? Does it need to...
How to Write Fast Code in Ruby on Rails
At Shopify, we use Ruby on Rails for most of our projects. For both Rails and Ruby, there exists a healthy amount of stigma toward performance. You’ll often find examples...
How to Write Fast Code in Ruby on Rails
At Shopify, we use Ruby on Rails for most of our projects. For both Rails and Ruby, there exists a healthy amount of stigma toward performance. You’ll often find examples...
How Shopify Manages Petabyte Scale MySQL Backup...
At Shopify, we run a large fleet of MySQL servers, with numerous replica-sets (internally known as “shards”) spread across three Google Cloud Platform (GCP) regions. Given the petabyte scale size...
How Shopify Manages Petabyte Scale MySQL Backup...
At Shopify, we run a large fleet of MySQL servers, with numerous replica-sets (internally known as “shards”) spread across three Google Cloud Platform (GCP) regions. Given the petabyte scale size...
How Shopify Scales Up Its Development Teams
Have you clicked on this article because you’re interested in how Shopify scales its development teams and the lessons we’re learning along the way? Well, cool, you’ve come to the...
How Shopify Scales Up Its Development Teams
Have you clicked on this article because you’re interested in how Shopify scales its development teams and the lessons we’re learning along the way? Well, cool, you’ve come to the...
Want to Improve UI Performance? Start by Unders...
My team at Shopify recently did a deep dive into the performance of the Marketing section in the Shopify admin. Our focus was to improve the UI performance. This included...
Want to Improve UI Performance? Start by Unders...
My team at Shopify recently did a deep dive into the performance of the Marketing section in the Shopify admin. Our focus was to improve the UI performance. This included...