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  • Development

Optimizing Ruby Lazy Initialization in TruffleRuby with Deoptimization

  • by Carol Chen
  • Mar 31, 2020
  • Development

Refactoring Legacy Code with the Strangler Fig Pattern

  • by Adrianna Chang
  • Mar 11, 2020
  • Data Science & Engineering

The Evolution of Kit: Automating Marketing Using Machine Learning

  • by Vincent Chio
  • Mar 4, 2020
  • Development

Creating Native Components That Accept React Native Subviews

  • by Joe Redridge
  • Feb 25, 2020
  • Infrastructure

Your Circuit Breaker is Misconfigured

  • by Damian Polan
  • Feb 18, 2020
  • Data Science & Engineering

Great Code Reviews—The Superpower Your Team Needs

  • by Alejandro Lujan Toro
  • Feb 10, 2020
  • Security

Bug Bounty Year in Review 2019

  • by peter yaworski
  • Feb 6, 2020
  • Mobile

React Native is the Future of Mobile at Shopify

  • by Farhan Thawar
  • Jan 29, 2020
  • Developer Tooling

Scaling Mobile Development by Treating Apps as Services

  • by Alejandro Salamanca
  • Jan 16, 2020
  • Development

How to Implement a Secure Central Authentication Service in Six Steps

  • by Justin Filip
  • Dec 26, 2019
  • Development

How Shopify Manages API Versioning and Breaking Changes

  • by Tom Newton
  • Dec 17, 2019
Successfully Merging the Work of 1000+ Developers
  • Developer Tooling

Successfully Merging the Work of 1000+ Developers

  • by Jack Li
  • Nov 14, 2019
Four Steps to Creating Effective Game Day Tests
  • Infrastructure

Four Steps to Creating Effective Game Day Tests

  • by Shopify Engineering
  • Nov 12, 2019
  • Development

Sam Saffron AMA: Performance and Monitoring with Ruby

  • by Anita Clarke
  • Nov 5, 2019
  • Culture

Make Great Decisions Quickly with TOMASP

  • by Djoume Salvetti
  • Oct 22, 2019
Five Common Data Stores and When to Use Them
  • Development

Five Common Data Stores and When to Use Them

  • by Toria Gibbs
  • Oct 15, 2019
How to Write Fast Code in Ruby on Rails - Women on laptop writing Ruby code
  • Development

How to Write Fast Code in Ruby on Rails

  • by Gannon McGibbon
  • Oct 8, 2019
  • Infrastructure

How Shopify Manages Petabyte Scale MySQL Backup and Restore

  • by Akshay Suryawanshi
  • Oct 1, 2019
  • Culture

How Shopify Scales Up Its Development Teams

  • by Larry Lumsden
  • Sep 26, 2019
Want to Improve UI Performance? Start by Understanding your User
  • Development

Want to Improve UI Performance? Start by Understanding Your User

  • by Darren Hebner
  • Sep 20, 2019
Building Resilient GraphQL APIs using Idempotency
  • Development

Building Resilient GraphQL APIs Using Idempotency

  • by Todd Jefferson
  • Aug 27, 2019
Living on the Edge of Rails
  • Developer Tooling

Living on the Edge of Rails

  • by Edouard CHIN
  • Aug 21, 2019
Pagination with Relative Cursors
  • Development

Pagination with Relative Cursors

  • by Drew Martin
  • Aug 12, 2019
Lessons from Leading a Remote Engineering Team
  • Culture

Lessons from Leading a Remote Engineering Team

  • by Lawrence Mandel
  • Jul 25, 2019
Componentizing Shopify’s Tax Engine
  • Development

Componentizing Shopify’s Tax Engine

  • by Chris Inch
  • Jul 5, 2019
  • Mobile

Implementing Android POS Receipt Printing on Shopify

  • by Flávio Faria
  • Jun 5, 2019
Mobile Release Engineering at Scale with Shipit Mobile
  • Developer Tooling

Mobile Release Engineering at Scale with Shipit Mobile

  • by Alejandro Salamanca
  • May 17, 2019
Pair Programming Explained
  • Development

Pair Programming Explained

  • by Mihai Popescu
  • May 9, 2019
  • Infrastructure

A New Kubectl Plugin for Kubernetes Ingress Controller ingress-nginx

  • by Alex Kursell
  • May 1, 2019
Building Shopify’s Application Security Program
  • Security

Building Shopify’s Application Security Program

  • by Andrew Dunbar
  • Apr 26, 2019
One Million Dollars in Bug Bounties
  • Security

One Million Dollars in Bug Bounties

  • by peter yaworski
  • Apr 3, 2019
Developer Kirsten Westeinde talks Developing a Growth Mindset, the Early Days of Shopify, and Working with Go
  • Culture

Developer Kirsten Westeinde talks Developing a Growth Mindset, the Early Days of Shopify, and Working with Go

  • by Toni Akinwumi
  • Mar 22, 2019
Shopify Developers Share Lessons on Self-Advocacy and Dealing with Adversity in the Technology Industry
  • Culture

Shopify Developers Share Lessons on Self-Advocacy and Dealing with Adversity in the Technology Industry

  • by Toni Akinwumi
  • Mar 8, 2019
Deconstructing the Monolith: Designing Software that Maximizes Developer Productivity
  • Development

Deconstructing the Monolith: Designing Software that Maximizes Developer Productivity

  • by Kirsten Westeinde
  • Feb 21, 2019
Unifying Our GraphQL Design Patterns and Best Practices with Tutorials
  • Development

Unifying Our GraphQL Design Patterns and Best Practices with Tutorials

  • by Scott Walkinshaw
  • Feb 13, 2019
  • Infrastructure

Engineering a Historic Moment: Shopify Gets Ready for Cannabis in Canada

  • by Jason Hiltz-Laforge
  • Feb 7, 2019
  • Culture

Attracting Local Talent And Building Mobile Apps: A Developer Hiring Initiative

  • by Julia Hurrelmann
  • Feb 1, 2019
How Shopify Uses Recommender Systems to Empower Entrepreneurs
  • Data Science & Engineering

How Shopify Uses Recommender Systems to Empower Entrepreneurs

  • by Dora Jambor
  • Jan 25, 2019
iOS Application Testing Strategies at Shopify - Photo by Sarah Pflug from Burst
  • Mobile

iOS Application Testing Strategies at Shopify

  • by Uzziah Eyee
  • Jan 15, 2019
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Test Retries: An Android Monorepo Case Study
  • Developer Tooling

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Test Retries: An Android Monorepo Case Study

  • by Alejandro Salamanca
  • Jan 8, 2019
  • Infrastructure

Preparing Shopify for Black Friday and Cyber Monday

  • by Camilo Lopez
  • Dec 21, 2018
  • Security

Bug Bounty Year in Review 2018

  • by peter yaworski
  • Dec 20, 2018
  • Infrastructure

How an Intern Released 3 Terabytes Worth of Storage Before BFCM

  • by Gurpreet Gill
  • Dec 14, 2018
  • Culture

Director of Engineering, Lawrence Mandel Talks Road to Leadership, Growth, and Finding Balance.

  • by Toni Akinwumi
  • Dec 3, 2018
  • Developer Tooling

Developer Talks: How the Command Line Can Empower You (Webinar)

  • by Anita Clarke
  • Nov 20, 2018
Handling Addresses from All Around the World
  • Development

Handling Addresses from All Around the World

  • by Nima Izadi
  • Nov 14, 2018
  • Infrastructure

Running Apache Kafka on Kubernetes at Shopify

  • by Sam Obeid
  • Nov 7, 2018
  • Mobile

Building Shopify POS for Android Using MVVM

  • by Richa Khanna
  • Oct 31, 2018
  • Development

Creating Locale-aware Number and Currency Condensing

  • by Carys Mills
  • Oct 24, 2018
  • Development

Building a Data Table Component in React

  • by Solona Armstrong
  • Oct 17, 2018
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Building a Data Table Component in React

Successfully Merging the Work of 1000+ Developers

Deconstructing the Monolith: Designing Software that Maximizes Developer Productivity

How Shopify Manages API Versioning and Breaking Changes

How to Write Fast Code in Ruby on Rails

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Solving the N+1 Problem for GraphQL through Batching

How Shopify Manages Petabyte Scale MySQL Backup and Restore

Make Great Decisions Quickly with TOMASP

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Test Retries: An Android Monorepo Case Study

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