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Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native
After years of native mobile development, we’ve decided to build all of our new mobile apps using React Native. As I’ll explain, that decision doesn’t come lightly.
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How Shopify reduced storefront response times with a rewrite
We rewrote critical software that powers all online storefronts on Shopify, offering the fastest online shopping experience, entirely from scratch and without downtime.
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How Shopify Manages API Versioning and Breaking Changes
This year, we released the 1st official version of our API. Our API versioning scheme allows us to providing apps with stable behavior and predictable timelines.
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How to write fast code in Ruby on Rails
Part of Shopify’s success with Ruby on Rails is an emphasis on writing fast code. But, how do you really write fast code? Let’s talk about a few ways to start writing faster code in Active Record, Rails, and Ruby.
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How Shopify implemented its secure authentication service
We created a centralized authentication service, called Identity, by building upon functionality from the OpenID Connect (OIDC) specification.
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Enforcing Modularity in Rails Apps with Packwerk
Packwerk is an open source static analysis tool used to enforce boundaries between groups of Ruby files we call packages.