Graphs 📈 are boring even if one of mine made the Wall Street Journal. As an engineer, much prefer 📉. Let's talk performance at Shopify. Composite primary keys aren't the default in AR/Rails. We added and now seeing 700% speed-up in top order queries. /1

You do not respond to anger with more anger; you open up and respond with kindness. We all deserve equal rights. People with power should listen to and support their citizens. What happens now is a complete opposite of that.

Problems that you are solving should be interesting, but systems that you are building should be boring.

If you cause someone suffering, it’s only sensible to apologize. Yes, even if you are right.

Working at Shopify Engineering is like: join an advanced DDD workshop; the facilitator shares an article with the group; the person who wrote the article is a participant in the workshop.

Some people are quite judgemental when hear that I like exposing myself to a very polarizing opinions. I find it odd. How am I suppose to understand if I’m not willing to listen?

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“I intended to live forever, so far so good”