I'm reading various comments in defense and criticizing Shopify:
kenrose: "I worked at Shopify in the past. Your assessment is incorrect. [...] Shopify has done a good job on defining clear interface boundaries between various parts of the monolith [...] they’ve invested significantly in developer tooling to make developers more efficient. It’s not perfect and there’s always more to do..."
sushshshsh: "This is a good post because it details to me how horribly broken Shopify's process and culture are."
In my work I'm exposed to many different online store and POS applications. Shopify is in a unique class. They have a diverse third-party apps community, and a documented API.
For my needs, their app community allowed me to extend Shopify reporting to suit my firm's particular requirements.
Other companies have their product and if their design doesn't fit your needs, is missing a feature in a report, or whatever, you're just SOL.
I think it's worth noting these details when reading about this person's experience. There might be a hint of it from the article: "Working on [Operation HOPE] was the first time I’ve ever really interacted with an outside organization from inside Shopify." (as near as I can tell this program is a drive to put more stores on the platform, and not including US based black owned _developers_ in their App Store).
Other comments here note the author does not identify their position (as developer), either.
kenrose: "I worked at Shopify in the past. Your assessment is incorrect. [...] Shopify has done a good job on defining clear interface boundaries between various parts of the monolith [...] they’ve invested significantly in developer tooling to make developers more efficient. It’s not perfect and there’s always more to do..."
sushshshsh: "This is a good post because it details to me how horribly broken Shopify's process and culture are."
In my work I'm exposed to many different online store and POS applications. Shopify is in a unique class. They have a diverse third-party apps community, and a documented API.
For my needs, their app community allowed me to extend Shopify reporting to suit my firm's particular requirements.
Other companies have their product and if their design doesn't fit your needs, is missing a feature in a report, or whatever, you're just SOL.
I think it's worth noting these details when reading about this person's experience. There might be a hint of it from the article: "Working on [Operation HOPE] was the first time I’ve ever really interacted with an outside organization from inside Shopify." (as near as I can tell this program is a drive to put more stores on the platform, and not including US based black owned _developers_ in their App Store).
Other comments here note the author does not identify their position (as developer), either.