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Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native by aprilthird2021 on Friday September 11, 2026 @03:05AM (#49654566)
Why is it astounding? They have one of the biggest e-commerce applications in the world. A mobile app for shoppers. A payment system and mobile wallet app. A shipment tracking system. Tax and small business software. They have their own lending arm with its own software. They have multiple frameworks for other development teams to make super customizable e-commerce sites. They support Remix and Tailwind among other software. They have brick and mortar POS systems.

They are like multiple companies in one: Square, Etsy, aspects of Stripe, aspects of Squarespace/Wordpress. Idk I can see why they have a lot of people.

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Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native by harrouet on Friday September 11, 2026 @03:46AM (#49654882)
Plus they have an Amazon-scale infrastructure to manage...
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Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native by stingraycharles on Friday September 11, 2026 @04:21AM (#49655136)
I think Amazon is very much on another level in terms of scale. Not trying to be negative about Shopify — they have a very large system to maintain - but Amazon is just on another level.
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Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native by tonyedgecombe on Friday September 11, 2026 @06:40AM (#49656178)
Amazon don't seem release any figures but I've seen estimates of 50,000 to 100,000 engineers. They do have 1.576 million employees worldwide (2025 figure).
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Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native by stingraycharles on Friday September 11, 2026 @08:25AM (#49657252)
Yes but “Amazon-scale infra” as the grandparent mentions should absolutely include AWS, and Shopify is nowhere near that size.
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Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native by hackisterium on Friday September 11, 2026 @06:48AM (#49656230)
Combined Shopify sales are ~half of Amazon's but growing quicker. Shopify probably supports more sales per engineer than Amazon's retail stack team.
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Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native by echoangle on Friday September 11, 2026 @07:03AM (#49656351)
Amazon also has AWS as infra though, they only do retail as a side gig
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Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native by aprilthird2021 on Friday September 11, 2026 @04:51PM (#49665195)
They also have enormous fulfillment services. Shopify doesn't handle that part.

They also have video and music streaming. And Kindle Unlimited.

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Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native by tomnipotent on Friday September 11, 2026 @06:38AM (#49656156)
Shopify is not far behind Amazon (the e-com business). It's network sees as many unique visitors as Amazon, though I imagine Amazon has more sessions per visitor, but the GMV across Shopify is just shy of half of Amazon. It's still in the same ball park.
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Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native by hackisterium on Friday September 11, 2026 @06:53AM (#49656269)
What metic are you using? Shopify takes an average of ~$1bn at checkout daily while Amazon is over 2bn.
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Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native by tomnipotent on Friday September 11, 2026 @07:25AM (#49656576)
Yes, Shopify GMV is roughly half of Amazon.
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