Episode
Shopify’s massive storefront rewrite (Interview)
The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source · Oct 16, 2020 · 1 h 09 min
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…