Shopify Engineering
Shopify's engineering blog, known for keeping one of the largest Ruby on Rails applications standing through Black Friday flash sale traffic and for its work on Ruby performance. Recent posts cover moving the Shop app from React Native to native, clustering billions of products for agentic commerce and building durable LLM agent harnesses. Frequent and practical.
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Shopify's engineering blog, known for keeping one of the largest Ruby on Rails applications standing through Black Friday flash sale traffic and for its work on Ruby performance. Recent posts cover moving the Shop app from React Native to native, clustering billions of products for agentic commerce and building durable LLM agent harnesses. Frequent and practical.
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