Blog posts about Development

In our Winter ‘23 Edition, we announced smart order routing: a new system to give merchants more flexibility when dec...

At the beginning of this year, we ran several experiments aimed at reducing the latency impact of the Ruby garbage co...

State Management is a contentious subject in the React community. A lot of debates focus on Redux and whether we shou...

Talk to 10 people and they might share 10 different definitions for staff developer. This is not too surprising, beca...

Whether processing checkouts through Shop Pay or shopping via the Shop app, security is paramount to Shopify—as is pr...

In our globalized and interconnected world, apps and websites are increasingly being targeted at an international aud...

To build great mobile apps at scale, you need a great developer experience. It’s no secret that we love creating purp...

In 2022, we shipped Merlin, Shopify’s new and improved machine learning platform built on Ray. We built a flexible pl...

Ruby has an explicit goal to make developers happy. Historically, working towards that goal mostly meant having rich ...

Monkey patching is considered one of the more powerful features of the Ruby programming language. However, by the end...

Let’s talk about technical debt. Let’s talk about practical usable approaches for actually paying it down on a daily,...

We recently released ShopifyQL Notebooks, a powerful self-serve tool which enables merchants to explore how their bus...

At Winter Editions 2023 we announced a Local Developer Preview for JavaScript for Shopify Functions. That means that ...

A business’s taxes can be difficult to manage, especially in the United States. Tax laws are complicated and vary sta...

Dear Past Self, I know you’ve heard of TDD (Test Driven Development) and are excited to start writing tests. You’ve ...

At Shopify, Black Friday Cyber Monday (BFCM) is the most critical time of year for us and our merchants. It’s where w...

How a high-school-dropout-turned-farmer ended up kicking butt in the cyber security world: This story looks at the op...

When working with draggable elements in React Native mobile apps, I’ve learned that there are some simple ways to hel...