Blog posts about Development

VCR is a Ruby library that records HTTP interactions and plays them back to your test suite, verifying input and retu...

In this blog post, I’ll be introducing how Shopify is improving CRuby’s performance in Ruby 3.2 by optimizing the mem...

Hi everyone! How are you doing? It's me, Aaron (some people know me on the internet as Tenderlove)! I hope you're doi...

Shopify builds internet infrastructure for commerce to serve the needs of millions of merchants. Doing that requires ...

By Kevin Lam and Rafael Aguiar At Shopify, we’ve adopted Apache Flink as a standard stateful streaming engine that p...

It’s been around two and a half years since Shopify transitioned to become a fully remote-first company. A lot has ch...

What do you do with a finite amount of time to deal with an infinite number of things that can go wrong?  We prepare...

When building any kind of real-time data application, trying to figure out how to send messages from the server to th...

"Is there a way to extract Datadog metrics in Python for in-depth analysis?"  This question has been coming up a lot...

TL;DR: Performance is crucial for Shopify. After we started using React Native, we had to find a way to confirm our m...

Located within the Shop organization at Shopify, the Shop Store team is responsible for managing the buyer experience...

This blog post is for you—your project, your brilliant idea that is too good to be kept to yourself. Do you want to o...

In part one of Caching Without Marshal, we dove into the internals of Marshal, Ruby’s built-in binary serialization f...

Caching is critical to how Rails applications work. At every layer, whether it be in page rendering, database queryin...

Currently Shopify is going through the process of updating from the Apollo GraphQL client 2 to client 3. The Apollo c...

We are very excited to announce that the open-source web framework Remix and its team are joining Shopify. Why? The w...

In June of this year, RubyGems, the main repository for Ruby packages (gems), announced that multi-factor authenticat...

Have you ever shipped a batch of commits like the ones below? A set of purposeless commits in reverse order. If so,...