Shopify Engineering

Application Proxies: The New Hotness
I’m pleased to announce a brand new feature that we recently added to the Shopify API: Application Proxies. These will allow you do develop all kinds of crazy things that...
Application Proxies: The New Hotness
I’m pleased to announce a brand new feature that we recently added to the Shopify API: Application Proxies. These will allow you do develop all kinds of crazy things that...

Three Months of CoffeeScript
Guest Post by Kamil Tusznio! Kamil’s a developer at Shopify and has been working in our developer room just off the main “bullpen” that I like to refer to as...
Three Months of CoffeeScript
Guest Post by Kamil Tusznio! Kamil’s a developer at Shopify and has been working in our developer room just off the main “bullpen” that I like to refer to as...

Most Memory Leaks are Good
TL;DR Catastrophe! Your app is leaking memory. When it runs in production it crashes and starts raising Errno::ENOMEM exceptions. So you babysit it and restart it consistently so that your...
Most Memory Leaks are Good
TL;DR Catastrophe! Your app is leaking memory. When it runs in production it crashes and starts raising Errno::ENOMEM exceptions. So you babysit it and restart it consistently so that your...

How Batman can Help you Build Apps
Batman.js is Shopify’s new open source CoffeeScript framework, and I’m absolutely elated to introduce it to the world after spending so much time on it. Find Batman on GitHub here....
How Batman can Help you Build Apps
Batman.js is Shopify’s new open source CoffeeScript framework, and I’m absolutely elated to introduce it to the world after spending so much time on it. Find Batman on GitHub here....

Making Apps using Python, Django and App Engine
We recently announced the release of our Python adaptor for the Shopify API. Now we would like to inform you that we have got it working well with the popular Django web...
Making Apps using Python, Django and App Engine
We recently announced the release of our Python adaptor for the Shopify API. Now we would like to inform you that we have got it working well with the popular Django web...

Webhook Testing Made Easy
Webhooks are fantastic. We use them here at Shopify to notify API users of all sorts of important events. Order creation, product modification, and even app uninstallation all cause webhooks...
Webhook Testing Made Easy
Webhooks are fantastic. We use them here at Shopify to notify API users of all sorts of important events. Order creation, product modification, and even app uninstallation all cause webhooks...