From March to October we simulated traffic tsunamis, injected chaos, and fixed every bottleneck before our merchants needed us most.

Learn how we solved a major search engineering dilemma—running machine learning models at native C++ speed.

Last year, over 875 million people bought items from Shopify merchants. Building on our prior Vision Language Model-based product classification, this post explores how AI agents are evolving the taxonomy itself.

Learn how we evolved our AI assistant architecture and built robust evaluation frameworks for real-world deployment.

MCP UI extends the Model Context Protocol to enable AI agents to return fully interactive UI components. It solves the critical challenge that commerce experiences require visual and interactive elements like product selectors, image galleries, and cart flows. This open-source protocol allows agents...

FlashList v2 is a complete rewrite, delivering faster load times, improved scrolling performance, and precise rendering without requiring item size estimates. It powers thousands of lists in the Shopify mobile app and is now production-ready.

Our Global Catalogue demonstrates the impact of multimodal LLMs on one of commerce’s hardest problems: building a unified, structured, and continuously evolving understanding of billions of product listings created by millions of merchants.

Commerce is a dynamic ecosystem where our mission is to empower every merchant to succeed. We optimize each step of their journey—from product creation to customer delivery—using advanced tools, infrastructure, and partnerships to solve a complex optimization challenge.

Learn how we just made Shopify's Admin 30% faster while setting it up for AI superpowers. We overhauled admin.shopify.com, transforming the system that supports 67 million daily page views and empowers merchants in managing their businesses.

WebGPU is revolutionizing React Native graphics by enabling a unified backend architecture, leveraging web ecosystem giants like Three.js for 3D experiences, and facilitating general-purpose GPU computing for tasks like machine learning. This has directly led to significant performance enhancements ...

Our Augmented Engineering DX team tackles developer productivity challenges like flaky tests and low test coverage using AI agents. We discovered breaking complex tasks into discrete steps was key to reliable AI performance, leading to the creation and open-sourcing of Roast, a tool designed to stru...

Learn how we partnered with Coinbase to bring payments onchain at scale with a new smart contract protocol to meet the complex requirements of commerce.

Import maps are great for both performance and developer experience, but their original limitations made them hard to use, especially at Shopify’s scale. We stepped up and pushed changes across the HTML spec, Chromium and WebKit to fix these issues at the web platform level. Now, developers can inte...

Shopify’s product classification system has evolved from basic categorization to an AI-driven framework using Vision Language Models and the Shopify Product Taxonomy. It accurately classifies products, extracts attributes, and processes over 30 million predictions daily, improving search, discovery,...

Learn how we tackled the main issues of traditional WebViews—performance, appearance, and integration—and how Mobile Bridge became a game-changer in our mobile development strategy, even allowing us to accelerate the migration to React Native.

Insight into how Shopify created a seamless one-click manual testing experience (known as "tophatting") for mobile applications by creating a macOS app.

How we shipped ES module integrity in browsers and made commerce and the web better for everyone!

Shop app horizontally scaled a Ruby on Rails app with Vitess. This blog describes Vitess and our detailed approach for introducing Vitess to a Rails app.