Blog posts about Development

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,...

Do we need to read code before editing it? The idea isn’t as wild as it sounds. In order to safely fix a bug or upda...

We recently announced Flex Comp, our new approach to compensation that puts product thinking at the forefront of how ...

The Database Migrations team is in charge of creating and maintaining all the internal tools for Shopify teams to car...

One of Shopify’s philosophies when it comes to adopting a new technology isn’t only to level up the proficiency of ou...

Shopify Functions enables customizing the business logic of Shopify’s back end with server-side WebAssembly. There ar...

If you haven’t checked out Shopify Editions (which you should), you may have missed the release of pre-orders and “tr...

“We need the videos” was the refrain from engineers following the 16th edition of RailsConf. Back in May, the annual ...

As technical folk, we sometimes hear about “how to do business with other cultures.” But what about “how to code with...

For every initiative that a business takes on, there is an opportunity potential and a cost—the cost of not doing som...

In June, we shared the details of how we built Hydrogen, our React-based framework for building custom storefronts. W...