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Shopifys massive storefront rewrite

Published: Oct. 16, 2020, 9 p.m.

b'Maxime Vaillancourt joined us to talk about Shopify\\u2019s massive storefront rewrite from a Ruby on Rails monolith to a completely new implementation written in Ruby. It\\u2019s a fairly well known opinion that rewrites are \\u201cthe single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make\\u201d and generally something \\u201cyou should never do.\\u201d But Maxime and the team at Shopify have proved successful in their efforts in this massive storefront rewrite and today\\u2019s conversation covers all the details.'