That's a wrap on another incredible BFCM! You got a nerdy preview from tobi lutke, and we're back with the final stats. Let’s go!🧵👇

We achieved 99.999+% uptime, handling 29.7 PB of data served from across our infrastructure over the entire event! That’s over 5 TB/min.

See what some of our colleagues were upto in last few months 😻💚

And we’re live!

Shopify.com/BFCM ✌️

I've got something very exciting to announce:

Entrepreneurs are heroes, and every hero needs a Sidekick ✨

The 'Will GPT automate all the jobs?' paper is out

With participation from OpenAI, OpenResearch and @penn

🧵 1/9

Shop smarter with Shop.ai! We've brought our ChatGPT-powered shopping assistant to the web — try it out, and don’t forget to sign in with Shop to save your faves 💜

I hope this doesn’t kick the hornet’s nest on a Friday evening, but the problem with “shared ownership” of … well, anything, all but guarantees that the problem becomes a political one, and outcomes hinge on how deft and well-versed engineering leaders are at managing conflict.

This is a big news for the #RUST community. We are adopting RUST at Shopify Engineering for its obvious benefits (read more in the shopify.engineering/shopify-rust-s…) for systems programming and to show the commitment we are joining the RUST foundation as the first gold member.

Another Black Friday Cyber Monday (BFCM) weekend done and dusted!

We achieved 99.999+% uptime while averaging 3 Terabytes per minute of egress traffic across our infrastructure.

That’s 4.3 Petabytes per day! 🤯

Check out the thread for more awesome performance stats 🧵👇

Principal Engineer's Handbook: bit.ly/principal-hand… — what does one do, ..., what is and how do they measure success? 🤔

Living guidebook based on first-hand experience and many enlightening conversations with other Principal+ engineers at Shopify, Google, and beyond.

It's never DNS until it's actually DNS. Today we wiped all ~400 DNS zones and recovered from it.
What a day!

We are beyond excited to announce that Remix is joining Shopify! 🎉

Thank you all for joining us on this journey. It's only getting better from here!

Learn more 👇
remix.run/blog/remixing-…

A excellent thread about platform engineering, the limits of marketing, and the primacy of context-specific solutions.

Platform engineering is simply not a product you can package and buy, and to the extent we reduce it to one, it *loses* what makes it most valuable.

Predictability is an underrated attribute. It plays a key role in robust systems, either made up of atoms or bits, and allows for “Thinking by First Principles” #MentalModel

One mistake that people make when crafting Product Strategy is that they try to make it inspiring. This makes your strategy fluffy, even suboptimal. For your strategy, optimize for “rigorous & clear” not “inspiring”. Your Mission & Vision can (and should) do the job of inspiring.

Infrastructure that underlies great research often doesn't get the attention that it deserves. This post discusses TensorStore, a (now) open-sourced high-performance, scalable array storage system. It enables Google AI's connectomics work, LLMs, + more...

ai.googleblog.com/2022/09/tensor…

Dealing with Security in GraphQL is hard. This is a good first step in pen-testing and understanding the security limitations of the GraphQL service and improving them
#GraphQL #security

blog.escape.tech/pentest101/

Less people are using OS package managers and some language ecosystems have moved towards source based dependency management. So how do we deal with vulnerabilities when apt-get update isn't an option?

The Go security team offers a solution -- for Golang. go.dev/blog/vuln