Engineering Blog: Page 2

Sidekiq vs BullMQ vs Celery: how the three big background job systems actually compare in 2026, when each one wins, and what we ship in production.

TypeScript on the frontend and backend can save coordination cost or sink your team. Here's when full-stack TS is the right call, and when it isn't.

Postgres handles 90% of SaaS workloads. JSONB, full-text, pgvector, queues. Here's when it's enough, and the four cases where we reach for something else.

A practical playbook for moving from Magento to Shopify: redirect maps, data migration, SEO, real costs, and timelines. What breaks and how to avoid it.

Rails powers Shopify's $14.6B Black Friday. Here's why we keep choosing it for B2B SaaS, what Rails 8 changes, and when we'd pick something else.

What Shopify Plus actually costs in 2026, the real total beyond the sticker price, and the point where upgrading pays off. A directional, no-hype guide.

A practical guide to programmatic SEO: how to turn a structured dataset into hundreds of thousands of indexable pages without building a doorway-page farm.

How to add semantic search to a Postgres app with pgvector and a self-hosted embedding model. The real tradeoffs, grounded in a product we shipped.

Where to find Shopify developers, how to vet them, what they cost, and how to scope the work so you don't get a nasty surprise. A hiring guide, not a pitch.