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Shopify’s massive storefront rewrite

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Maxime Vaillancourt joined us to talk about Shopify’s massive storefront rewrite from a Ruby on Rails monolith to a completely new implementation written in Ruby. It’s a fairly well known opinion that rewrites are “the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make” and generally something “you should never do.” But Maxime and the team at Shopify have proved successful in their efforts in this massive storefront rewrite and today’s conversation covers all the details.

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    • Featuring:

    • Maxime Vaillancourt – Website, GitHub, X
    • Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
    • Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

    Show Notes:

    • How Shopify Reduced Storefront Response Times with a Rewrite
    • Shopify rewrites away from their Rails monolith
    • Things You Should Never Do, Part I

      • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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