EP181: The VP Engineering View on Shopify Components, Front-ends and New Checkout
Shopify continues its stellar growth, with revenue up significantly YoY, key features like Markets fully rolled-out and capabilities like POS and Payments extended into new countries. At the same time, it has had to divest unprofitable parts of the business like the fulfilment network to focus on the core product. The Shopify marketing team has been busy promoting new releases and there has been a lot of talk in the industry about the impact of its evolution into enterprise with Components, as well as the benefits to customers of the new checkout solution. In this episode we get the insider view from a highly experienced Shopify developer, Max Rolon VP engineering at leading agency Half Helix, who has worked with a wide range of brands including Peloton, Ulla Johnson, Laura Mercier and Bare Minerals.