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Shopify uses SkyPilot, an open-source framework, to manage GPU-intensive ML training workloads across multiple cloud providers (Nebius and GCP).
Javier Moreno
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Shopify introduces the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), an open standard co-developed with Google that enables AI agents to discover, negotiate, and transact with any merchant.
Ilya Grigorik
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Shopify open-sources Tangle, an ML experimentation platform built to solve six common failure modes in machine learning development.
Shopify Engineering
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Shopify's 2025 Black Friday Cyber Monday (BFCM) live globe was reimagined as an interactive pinball machine running at 120fps in a browser. Built with Three.
Shopify partnered with Endorphins Running to build a gamified treadmill experience for the 2025 NYC Marathon weekend that rewarded runners with in-store credit based on pace consistency.
Nikola Draca
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The article details Shopify's extensive preparations for the Black Friday Cyber Monday (BFCM) weekend, emphasizing the importance of year-round resilience and proactive testing.
Kyle Petroski and Matthew Frail
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The article discusses Shopify's innovative approach to building a high-performance product search engine that integrates Machine Learning (ML) models with C++ speed.
Mikhail Shakhray
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The article discusses how Shopify's product taxonomy is evolving through an innovative AI multi-agent system that enhances product classification and adapts to the changing landscape of commerce.
Kshetrajna Raghavan
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This article discusses Shopify's successful migration of their apps, Shopify Mobile and Shopify Point of Sale (POS), to React Native's New Architecture.
The article discusses the development of Shopify's AI-powered assistant, Sidekick, focusing on its architecture, evaluation methodologies, and training techniques.
Andrew McNamara
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The article discusses the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and its extension, MCP UI, which enhances the user experience for AI-driven shopping assistants by incorporating interactive UI components.
FlashList v2 is a complete rewrite of the original FlashList for React Native, designed to enhance performance and usability by eliminating the need for item size estimates.
Talha Naqvi
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The article discusses Shopify's Global Catalogue, which utilizes multimodal Large Language Models (LLMs) to standardize and enrich product data across its platform.
Audrey-Anne Guindon
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The article discusses how Shopify leverages machine learning to enhance the commerce experience for its merchants.
Javier Moreno
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The article discusses how Shopify's Admin was optimized to be 30% faster and prepared for AI integration by transforming its architecture.
Craig Brunner
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The article discusses the advancements in React Native graphics through the integration of WebGPU and Skia, highlighting how these technologies enhance performance and enable new capabilities for d...
William Candillon
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The article introduces Roast, a structured AI workflow orchestration framework developed by Shopify to enhance developer productivity by integrating AI agents with traditional coding practices.
Obie Fernandez
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The article introduces the Commerce Payments Protocol developed by Coinbase and Shopify, aimed at enhancing crypto payments for real-world commerce.
Shopify & Coinbase
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The article discusses Shopify's implementation of resilient import maps to enhance theme development and improve performance in JavaScript-heavy applications.
Yoav Weiss
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The article discusses the evolution of product classification at Shopify, detailing the transition from basic categorization to a comprehensive understanding of products using Vision Language Model...
Kshetrajna Raghavan
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The article discusses Mobile Bridge, a framework developed by Shopify to enhance WebViews in their mobile app, making them feel more native.
Mauricio de Meirelles
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The article discusses Shopify's five-year journey with React Native, highlighting the reasons for its adoption, the successes achieved, and the lessons learned.
Mustafa Ali
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The article details the development of Shopify's BFCM 2023 Globe, focusing on the real-time visualization of purchases made through Shopify-powered merchants.
Diego Macario Bello
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Shopify has enhanced consumer search intent on its platform by integrating AI-powered search capabilities, specifically through Semantic Search, which improves the understanding of user intent.
Jonathan Sabbagh
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This article discusses the issue of deadlocks in MySQL during high concurrency environments and presents a solution using composite primary keys to mitigate these deadlocks.
Elson Oliveira
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The article discusses the implementation of Subresource Integrity (SRI) for JavaScript modules in Chrome and Safari, addressing a critical gap in script security during Shopify's checkout process.
Yoav Weiss
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This article discusses Shopify's approach to remote rendering, a technique that separates UI definition from rendering, allowing third-party developers to create extensions that integrate seamlessl...
Joey Freund
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The article discusses the performance improvements made to the Shopify mobile app, which serves millions of merchants daily.
Talha Naqvi
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The article provides a retrospective on Packwerk, a Ruby gem developed by Shopify to enforce modularity and boundaries in Rails applications.
This article discusses the horizontal scaling of the Rails backend for the Shop app using Vitess, a database system abstraction over MySQL.
Hammad Khalid
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The article introduces Ruvy, an open-sourced toolchain that converts Ruby code into WebAssembly (Wasm) modules. It highlights Ruvy's performance advantages over existing solutions like ruby.
Jeff Charles
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The article discusses the development of a ShopifyQL code editor using CodeMirror, detailing the integration of ShopifyQL language features into the editor.
Trevor Harmon
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The article discusses improvements made to Sidekick's streaming experience for Large Language Model (LLM) chatbots, focusing on resolving issues like Markdown rendering jank and response delays.
Ates Goral
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The article discusses Shopify's transition to using Remix as the recommended framework for building Admin apps, emphasizing the importance of web standards and developer experience.
The article discusses the process of contributing support for WebAssembly instructions to Winch, Wasmtime's non-optimizing compiler.
Jeff Charles
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This article discusses the development of a flexible order routing system using Shopify Functions, enhancing the traditional order routing process by introducing customizable routing rules.
Ebun Segun
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This article discusses the efforts made by Shopify to improve the performance of the Ruby garbage collector (GC) in their monolithic application.
The article discusses the migration of Shopify's Retail Point of Sale app from Vanilla Redux to Redux Toolkit (RTK), highlighting the challenges and benefits of this transition.
Daniel Friyia
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The article discusses the evolving role of staff developers at Shopify, emphasizing their leadership in technical excellence, partnership formation, alignment with business objectives, and mentorsh...
Rose Wiegley
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The article discusses the integration of passkeys into Shopify's authentication flows to enhance security and user experience.
The article discusses internationalization (i18n) best practices for front-end developers, emphasizing the importance of understanding linguistic nuances when developing applications for a global a...
Lucas Huang
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The article discusses Tophat, a tool developed by Shopify to enhance the mobile developer experience by streamlining the testing process for mobile applications.
Lukas Romsicki
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The article discusses Shopify's Merlin machine learning platform, focusing on its online inference capabilities for real-time predictions.
Isaac Vidas
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The article discusses the development and features of the Ruby LSP (Language Server Protocol), aimed at enhancing the developer experience in Ruby programming.
The article discusses the concept of monkey patching in Ruby, highlighting its dangers and advocating for its limited use.
The article discusses the concept of technical debt and introduces the 25 Percent Rule as a framework for managing it effectively.
John DeWyze
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The article discusses the release of ShopifyQL Notebooks, a self-serve tool designed to help merchants explore and understand their business metrics through a new query language, ShopifyQL.
Cody Mazza-Anthony
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The article discusses the integration of JavaScript into Shopify Functions via WebAssembly, highlighting the development of Javy, a toolchain for running JavaScript in a WebAssembly environment.
Surma
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The article discusses the complexities of tax compliance for U. S. merchants and details the development of Shopify's Tax Insights feature.
Siraj Ali
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The article discusses the challenges of starting to write tests in software development, emphasizing the importance of Test Driven Development (TDD) and providing practical steps for beginners.
Jack Reichert
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