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At Shopify, we build into the monolith unless there’s a strong reason to build it as a new service.

It makes more sense for us to extract things than to make everything microservice.

Storefront makes sense to be on its own service, so we are making it so.

Projections that I read from urbanists about autonomous cars is that it will make transit worst, not better.

We’ll have empty cars driving around the city to pick some up. Causing transit. It’s the same effect Uber is causing to cities. More transit and people taking less mass transit.

The scenario that I read from urbanists is that people will continue to own an autonomous car, and the car will drive you to work, drive back home to pick up your partner, drive her/him to work, drive back to pick up the kids, then drive them to school, and on and on. So more empty cars on the road.

While I see autonomous cars as a cool tech, I don’t see urbanists thinking it will solve urban planning.

2004 and 2005 had a gigantic spike in deflorestation that is pulling the average up. So the data is a bit skewed.