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Ilya Grigorik

@igrigorik

Principal Engineer, @Shopify. On a mission to make commerce better for everyone.

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linkhttps://ilya.grigorik.com calendar_today05-11-2007 22:55:15

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There are lots of great jobs on shopify.com/careers but I want to specifically point at shopify.com/careers/princi… - we are looking for principal engineers to join our search teams. World class seach is a big priority of mine right now. Come work together!

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STIKKY adopted our new Checkout Sheet Kit in their native apps, which eliminated 75% of checkout-related code, improved checkout conversion by 15%, and improved loading time by over 90%, delivering an instant checkout experience for most users. 🙌

Everyone gets a win: faster and…

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Let's admit it, all HR/talent systems are broken. We confuse tenure and impact with aptitude and role fit, pushing people into jobs that take them away from focusing on the mastery of the craft they're good at.

Find your mastery ('resting') zone before you lose it:…

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GQL head-of-line blocking, no more: 'defer' to the rescue! 🙌

The power of GQL is that you can specify deep data graph for the server to resolve instead of issuing many requests or roundtrips. The downside is that the server must resolve the full graph before responding with…

GQL head-of-line blocking, no more: 'defer' to the rescue! 🙌 The power of GQL is that you can specify deep data graph for the server to resolve instead of issuing many requests or roundtrips. The downside is that the server must resolve the full graph before responding with…
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Kaz Nejatian(@CanadaKaz) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Small businesses always get screwed when it comes to interest rates.

We've shipped an alternative. Starting today, get rewarded with 3.86% on Shopify Balance.

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'Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it...' this extends to good software & platform design.

The new gears are long arc platform & technology bets, finally snapping together... it ain't magic but feels like it.

Hold on to your hats. 2024...

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Harley Finkelstein(@harleyf) 's Twitter Profile Photo

$9.3 billion in sales by Shopify merchants over Black Friday Cyber Monday weekend. That broke the 2022 record of $7.5 billion by 24%.

61 million consumers bought from Shopify-powered brands.

There was a 60% increase in YoY sales made by Shop Pay

17,500+ entrepreneurs made…

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Nerd BFCM stats:

Shopify’s egress processed 145 billion requests on Friday. App servers handled peak of ~60 million requests per minute. Increase of 38%. Total GMV was $4.1b, up by 22% from last year.

But Rails doesn't scale so what are we even doing 🤷‍♂️

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