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  1. 01Shopify · architecture

    We gave AI agents a mobile dev environment

    Engineering teams outgrew their local machines while running parallel AI mobile development agents, constrained by heavy builds and lack of iOS tools on Linux. To solve this, they built Remote Dev using warm pools of remote Macs connected via SSH alongside separate Linux VMs for Android virtualization, paired with agent skills and live browser streaming. This setup shifted workflow bottlenecks, increasing AI-merged pull requests from 6 percent to 61 percent.

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  2. 02Shopify · architecture

    How Shopify turns open models into task experts

    Shopify uses a continual learning flywheel to post-train open models, such as NVIDIA Nemotron, to serve as dedicated subagents for specific tasks like GraphQL generation. By optimizing inference and utilizing automated self-healing to generate training data from production failures, the team successfully created task experts that outperform frontier models while reducing serving costs by 90-98% and improving response times.

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  3. 03Shopify · architecture

    Cross-store product clustering across millions of stores

    Shopify needed to group identical product listings from millions of different merchants under a single global identifier. To solve this at scale without comparing every possible pair, the team implemented a multi-stage pipeline using vector retrieval, a tiered scoring system of ML models, and a bounded graph clustering approach. This architecture successfully standardizes product data across the entire platform while controlling computational costs.

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  4. 04GitHub · migration

    Improving site performance by shipping more CSS

    GitHub faced performance degradation on server-side rendering and initial page loads due to scaling issues with its CSS-in-JS solution. The engineering team executed a multi-year migration to CSS Modules and eliminated dynamic styling props using incremental rollouts, wrapper components, and automation tools. This resulted in significant performance gains, including 55% faster server-side rendering and the complete removal of styled-components.

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