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Shopify went all-in on React Native, but quickly learned that sometimes you need to break the rules. Here's when they write native code anyway.

Tophatting React Native

Company: Shopify · Sep 9, 2020
Platform: React Native

Charles Zhang from Shopify reveals how they cut React Native code review time from minutes to seconds. The secret? Rethinking how JavaScript bundles get shared between developers.

Shopify's POS app processes billions in sales yearly. Unlike typical apps, downtime means merchants can't make sales at all.

Farhan Thawar from Shopify reveals why they're betting the company's mobile future on React Native. With 71% of purchases happening on mobile, this wasn't a decision made lightly.

Shopify scaled to multiple mobile apps without slowing down. Their secret? Stop treating apps like special snowflakes.

Alejandro Rodriguez Salamanca from Shopify reveals how manual mobile releases were killing their velocity. The solution? A platform that cut release cycles from 3 weeks to 1 week.

Shopify's iOS team ships hundreds of commits weekly to a monorepo. Their testing strategy keeps quality high without slowing down velocity.

Mobile Tophatting at Shopify

Company: Shopify · Sep 11, 2018
Platform: iOS / Android

Pedro Piñera from Shopify reveals how they turned a 15-minute context switch into a single command. No QA team? No problem when developers can test each other's work this fast.

David Muzi from Shopify reveals how they solved a tricky problem: giving merchants access to thousands of third-party apps on mobile without requiring any code changes from developers.

Building a Dynamic Mobile CI System

Company: Shopify · Apr 13, 2017
Platform: iOS / Android

Shopify slashed their mobile CI deploy times from 2.5 hours to 15 minutes. Here's how they built a system that scales horizontally without breaking a sweat.

Jason Brennan from Shopify just open-sourced a debugger that lets you tweak iOS UI properties and watch them update in real-time on your device. No recompiling, no breakpoints, just instant visual feedback.

Most Memory Leaks Are Good

Company: Shopify · Oct 14, 2011
Platform: Android

Shopify Engineering shares a war story: their app servers were hitting 16GB+ memory usage, crashing with ENOMEM errors, and requiring constant restarts. The culprit? Not where they expected.

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