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Announcing go-lua
Today, we’re excited to release go-lua as an Open Source project. Go-lua is an implementation of the Lua programming language written purely in Go. We use go-lua as the core...
Announcing go-lua
Today, we’re excited to release go-lua as an Open Source project. Go-lua is an implementation of the Lua programming language written purely in Go. We use go-lua as the core...
There's More to Ruby Debugging Than puts()
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough...
There's More to Ruby Debugging Than puts()
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough...
Building Year in Review 2014 with SVG and Rails
As we have for the past 3 years, Shopify released a Year in Review to highlight some of the exciting growth and change we’ve observed over the past year. Designers...
Building Year in Review 2014 with SVG and Rails
As we have for the past 3 years, Shopify released a Year in Review to highlight some of the exciting growth and change we’ve observed over the past year. Designers...
Building and Testing Resilient Ruby on Rails Ap...
Black Friday and Cyber Monday are the biggest days of the year at Shopify with respect to every metric. As the Infrastructure team started preparing for the upcoming seasonal traffic...
Building and Testing Resilient Ruby on Rails Ap...
Black Friday and Cyber Monday are the biggest days of the year at Shopify with respect to every metric. As the Infrastructure team started preparing for the upcoming seasonal traffic...
Tuning Ruby's Global Method Cache
I was recently profiling a production Shopify application server using perf and noticed a fair amount of time being spent in a particular function, st_lookup, which is used by Ruby’s...
Tuning Ruby's Global Method Cache
I was recently profiling a production Shopify application server using perf and noticed a fair amount of time being spent in a particular function, st_lookup, which is used by Ruby’s...
Docker at Shopify: How We Built Containers that...
This is the second in a series of blog posts describing our evolution of Shopify toward a Docker-powered, containerized data center. This instalment will focus on the creation of the...
Docker at Shopify: How We Built Containers that...
This is the second in a series of blog posts describing our evolution of Shopify toward a Docker-powered, containerized data center. This instalment will focus on the creation of the...