We've got plenty of educational content for you this back-to-school season. From debugging Wasm to navigating cutural differences in code reviews, there's a little something for everyone this month. Anything else you'd like to learn from the teams that build Shopify? Let us know on Twitter @ShopifyEng.

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- Your Editor, Ashley Sawatsky

10 Tips for Building Resilient Payment Systems

DEVELOPMENT  •  BY BART DE WATER

In this super popular post, Staff Developer Bart distills years of experience building systems at scale into 10 useful tips.

Focus On Behavior, Not State, For a More Maintainable Codebase

DEVELOPMENT  •  BY JOHN DEWYZE

Sometimes the answer to tricky dilemmas isn’t the code we write, but how we write it. In this post, John explains how and why we moved from focusing on state (what an object is) towards behavior (what an object does) while building our Purchase Options APIs.

What is a Full Stack Data Scientist?

DATA SCIENCE & ENGINEERING  •  BY  MICAYLA WOOD

The idea of a “full stack data scientist” is growing in popularity across the industry, but there doesn’t seem to be a consensus on what it really means. We’ve embraced the term at Shopify, and we spoke to a few of our own data scientists to get a better picture of what it means to be a full stack data scientist.

When Culture and Code Reviews Collide, Communication is Key

CULTURE  •  BY  SWATI SWOBODA

In this insightful post, Swati draws from personal experience navigating cultural differences, especially those related to giving and receiving feedback, and how those differences come into play during code reviews. A must-read for anyone on (or aspiring to be on) a development team.

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Debugging Server-side WebAssembly with Jeff Charles

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