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Shopify and Open Source: A Mutually Beneficial Relationship
Deploy requests now alert on potential unwanted changes
We’d like to share a little detail we just shipped to the Deploy Request UI. We now show you if your schema change could result in the loss of any data due to a dropped column or table. We’re on a mission to make deploy requests the safest and least stressful way to make schema changes. Earlier this year, we release an in-dashboard feature that lets you revert a production schema change with one click, all while keeping any data that was written in the meantime. Now, with this small addition to
The Story Behind Shopify’s Isospin Tooling
Consensus algorithms at scale: Part 7 - Propagating requests
If you’re still catching up, you can find links to each article in the series at the bottom of this article. We have saved the most difficult part for last. This is where we put it all together. Let us start with a restatement of the requirements for propagation of requests during a leadership change: Propagate previously completed requests to satisfy the new leader’s durability requirements. Recap of parts 1-6 We have redefined the problem of consensus with the primary goal of solving durabilit
Vue 2.7 "Naruto" Released
Today we are happy to announce that Vue 2.7 "Naruto" has been released!
How to Build Trust as a New Manager in a Fully Remote Team
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