Lessons from six months at Shopify

Re:Lessons from six months at Shopify by akiselev on Saturday October 24, 2020 @01:16AM (#24877130)

> Every dev is allowed to spin up their own service. Teams can self organize and self govern around business problems they feel like solving. The best teams are the ones that produce the services that product owners rely on the most to get things done.

Can't emphasize this enough. The only way to tackle complexity in tech organizations is by introducing at least one degree of freedom for innovation per employee.

Where would Uber be without three thousand microservices for three thousand engineers?

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Re:Lessons from six months at Shopify by di4na on Saturday October 24, 2020 @02:12AM (#24877319)

Making a profit.

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Re:Lessons from six months at Shopify by Cthulhu_ on Saturday October 24, 2020 @07:10AM (#24878442)

Says more about the ridiculous profit margins than the software though.

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Re:Lessons from six months at Shopify by sokoloff on Saturday October 24, 2020 @08:12AM (#24878689)

I enjoy reading the spectrum of views on Uber, which seem to range from “they’re dumping rides below the cost of providing them” to “they have ridiculous profit margins”.

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Re:Lessons from six months at Shopify by di4na on Sunday October 25, 2020 @03:50AM (#24884576)

And yet a tons of SF companies never make a dime.

Tells a lot about the system right?

I recently discovered New Relic has yet to make any profit.

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Re:Lessons from six months at Shopify by swyx on Saturday October 24, 2020 @07:40AM (#24878561)

for the more credulous readers in the room I want to point out that the above comment is dripping with sarcasm. took me a while to determine it as well. poe's law is a cruel master

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