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  • Development

Lessons From Linguistics: i18n Best Practices for Front-End Developers

  • by Lucas Huang
  • Mar 16, 2023
  • Mobile

Tophat: Crafting a Delightful Mobile Developer Experience

  • by Lukas Romsicki
  • Mar 14, 2023
  • Data Science & Engineering

Unlocking Real-time Predictions with Shopify's Machine Learning Platform

  • by Isaac Vidas
  • Mar 10, 2023
  • Development

Improving the Developer Experience with the Ruby LSP

  • by Vinicius Stock
  • Feb 24, 2023
  • Development

The Case Against Monkey Patching, From a Rails Core Team Member

  • by Eileen Uchitelle
  • Feb 21, 2023
  • Development

The 25 Percent Rule for Tackling Technical Debt

  • by John DeWyze
  • Feb 16, 2023
  • Data Science & Engineering

ShopifyQL Notebooks: Simplifying Querying with Commerce Data Models

  • by Cody Mazza-Anthony
  • Feb 14, 2023
  • Development

Bringing Javascript to WebAssembly for Shopify Functions

  • by Surma
  • Feb 9, 2023
  • Data Science & Engineering

The Complex Data Models Behind Shopify's Tax Insights Feature

  • by Siraj Ali
  • Feb 8, 2023
  • Development

The Hardest Part of Writing Tests is Getting Started

  • by Jack Reichert
  • Feb 2, 2023
  • Infrastructure

Performance Testing At Scale—for BFCM and Beyond

  • by Jordan Neufeld
  • Jan 27, 2023
  • Culture

From Farmer to Security Engineer: How Dev Degree Helped Me Find My Dream Job

  • by Cailyn Edwards
  • Jan 26, 2023
  • Development

Making Your React Native Gestures Feel Natural

  • by Andrew Lo
  • Jan 20, 2023
  • Development

Ruby 3.2’s YJIT is Production-Ready

  • by Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert
  • Jan 17, 2023
  • Culture

How Good Documentation Can Improve Productivity

  • by Michael Chemani
  • Jan 12, 2023
  • Developer Tooling

From Ruby to Node: Overhauling Shopify’s CLI for a Better Developer Experience

  • by Pedro Piñera
  • Jan 10, 2023
  • Development

Reliving Your Happiest HTTP Interactions with Ruby’s VCR Gem

  • by Stephen Prater
  • Jan 5, 2023
  • Data Science & Engineering

Monte Carlo Simulations: Separating Signal from Noise in Sampled Success Metrics

  • by Tom Lowe
  • Jan 3, 2023
  • Mobile

React Native Skia: A Year in Review and a Look Ahead

  • by William Candillon
  • Dec 29, 2022
  • Mobile

Migrating our Largest Mobile App to React Native

  • by Mauricio de Meirelles
  • Dec 27, 2022
  • Development

Optimizing Ruby’s Memory Layout: Variable Width Allocation

  • by Peter Zhu
  • Dec 25, 2022
  • Development

Year in Review 2022: Tenderlove's Ruby and Rails Reflections and Predictions

  • by Aaron Patterson
  • Dec 22, 2022
  • Developer Tooling

Automatically Rotating GitHub Tokens (So You Don’t Have To)

  • by Evan Lee
  • Dec 20, 2022
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  • Development

Shopify Embraces Rust for Systems Programming

  • by Mike Shaver
  • Dec 14, 2022
  • Data Science & Engineering

3 (More) Tips for Optimizing Apache Flink Applications

  • by Kevin Lam
  • Dec 13, 2022
  • Culture

Three Essential Remote Work Practices for Engineering Teams

  • by James Stanier
  • Dec 8, 2022
  • Culture

Planning in Bets: Risk Mitigation at Scale

  • by Kathryn Tang
  • Dec 6, 2022
  • Data Science & Engineering

Using Server Sent Events to Simplify Real-time Streaming at Scale

  • by Bao Nguyen
  • Nov 30, 2022
  • Data Science & Engineering

How to Export Datadog Metrics for Exploration in Jupyter Notebooks

  • by Kunal Kohli
  • Nov 29, 2022
  • Development

Our Solution for Measuring React Native Rendering Times

  • by Elvira Burchik
  • Nov 24, 2022
  • Development

Implementing Server-Driven UI Architecture on the Shop App

  • by Ashwin Narayanan
  • Nov 22, 2022
  • Development

What We Learned from Open-Sourcing FlashList

  • by David Cortés
  • Nov 17, 2022
  • Development

Caching Without Marshal Part 2: The Path to MessagePack

  • by Chris Salzberg
  • Nov 15, 2022
  • Development

Caching Without Marshal Part 1: Marshal from the Inside Out

  • by Chris Salzberg
  • Nov 11, 2022
  • Development

Apollo Cache is Your Friend, If You Get To Know It

  • by Raman Lally
  • Nov 9, 2022
  • Data Science & Engineering

Reducing BigQuery Costs: How We Fixed A $1 Million Query

  • by Calvin Zhou
  • Nov 3, 2022
  • Development

Mixing It Up: Remix Joins Shopify to Push the Web Forward

  • by Dion Almaer
  • Oct 31, 2022
  • Developer Tooling

The Management Poles of Developer Infrastructure Teams

  • by Mark Côté
  • Oct 28, 2022
  • Culture

A Software Engineer's Guide to Working Across Time Zones

  • by Hui Jing Chen
  • Oct 27, 2022
  • Security

Hubble: Our Tool for Encapsulating and Extending Security Tools

  • by Tony Cummings
  • Oct 21, 2022
  • Data Science & Engineering

How to Structure Your Data Team for Maximum Influence

  • by Levi Bowles
  • Oct 20, 2022
  • Development

Finding Relationships Between Ruby’s Top 100 Packages and Their Dependencies

  • by Kevin Lin
  • Oct 19, 2022
  • Development

On the Importance of Pull Request Discipline

  • by Yash Kapadia
  • Oct 13, 2022
  • Development

How to Write Code Without Having to Read It

  • by JM Neri
  • Oct 11, 2022
  • Development

The Engineering Story Behind Flex Comp

  • by Eric Poirier
  • Oct 5, 2022
  • Infrastructure

Safely Adding NOT NULL Columns to Your Database Tables

  • by Sinclert Pérez
  • Oct 4, 2022
  • Culture

A Software Engineer’s Guide to Giving Feedback that Actually Matters

  • by Jack Reichert
  • Sep 30, 2022
  • Culture

A Flexible Framework for Effective Pair Programming

  • by Raymond Chung
  • Sep 27, 2022
  • Mobile

Lessons From Building Android Widgets

  • by Matt Bowen
  • Sep 22, 2022
  • Mobile

Lessons From Building iOS Widgets

  • by Carlos Pereira
  • Sep 22, 2022
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Migrating our Largest Mobile App to React Native Shopify Embraces Rust for Systems Programming Mixing It Up: Remix Joins Shopify to Push the Web Forward From Ruby to Node: Overhauling Shopify’s CLI for a Better Developer Experience A Flexible Framework for Effective Pair Programming 10 Tips for Building Resilient Payment Systems Five Common Data Stores and When to Use Them Deconstructing the Monolith: Designing Software that Maximizes Developer Productivity Under Deconstruction: The State of Shopify’s Monolith Reducing BigQuery Costs: How We Fixed A $1 Million Query

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