2022 was a big year for the Shopify Engineering blog and that’s all thanks to you—our readers. 💚

We rounded up some of the most-read and most-shared posts of 2022 in each category so you can make sure you’re all caught up before 2023’s fresh content starts hitting your inbox. In case you missed them, you can also find some specific year-in-reviews on the blog for Ruby (by Aaron Patterson) and React Native Skia (by William Candillon). Let’s get into it!

- Your Editor, Ashley Sawatsky

Top Culture Posts of 2022

• 10 Books Shopify’s Tech Talent Think You Should Read
• Six Tips for Staying Technical as a CTO
• A Flexible Framework for Effective Pair Programming

Top Development Posts of 2022

• How We Built Hydrogen: A React Framework for Building Custom Storefronts
• Our Experience Porting the YJIT Ruby Compiler to Rust
• 10 Tips for Building Resilient Payment Systems

Top Data Posts of 2022

• Lessons Learned From Running Apache Airflow at Scale
• The Magic of Merlin: Shopify's New Machine Learning Platform
• 7 Tips For Optimizing Apache Flink Applications

Top Mobile Posts of 2022

• Migrating our Largest Mobile App to React Native
• React Native Skia—For Us, For You, and For Fun
• Reusing Code with React Native Packages at Shopify

Top Dev Tooling Posts of 2022

• The Journey to Cloud Development: How Shopify Went All-in on Spin
• Test Budget: Time Constrained CI Feedback
• The Management Poles of Developer Infrastructure Teams

Top Security & Infra Posts of 2022

• Shopify’s Bug Bounty Program Raises Maximum Payout in 2022
• How We Fixed the Dependency Confusion Vulnerability in Over 600 Ruby Applications
• Using Terraform to Manage Infrastructure

🏅 Juciest Technical Deep Dive...

Implementing Equality in Ruby (Denis Defreyne)

🏅 Best Visuals...

How We Built Shopify Party (Daniel Beauchamp)

🏅 Most Buzzworthy...

Instant Performance Upgrade: From FlatList to FlashList (Marek Fořt)

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