Developer ProductivityA popular paradigm to consider when creating or retooling a complex development environment is bundling it in a virtual machine (VM). Tools such as Vagrant make this easy and appealing. This post will attempt to explore some of the pros and cons of development environments contained within a virtual machine.…
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Dev - Shopify's All Purpose Development Tool
Consistency is important across development environments; inconsistencies can lead to debugging nightmares and incorrect local behaviour. Even with the existing tools like chruby, bundler and homebrew to manage dependencies, setup can be a multi-step esoteric process and it can be difficult to outline the processes that achieve desired consistency. At…
Current Developer Environments at Shopify
In a previous post, we discussed the systems we have had throughout the history of Shopify. In this follow up post we'll talk about the system we run today. Finally, we will have another post that includes a few forward thinking questions about developer operations at Shopify. Dev Dev is…
Historical Developer Environments at Shopify
Development operations at Shopify has a long history that winds its way through various systems, technologies, and iterations. Over the course of these iterations we have learned a number of lessons, experienced ups and downs, and ultimately ended up with a system that performs well. In this post, we’ll…
The Future of Developer Environments at Shopify
In the previous posts we talked about our past experiences with Artisinal Systems, Boxen, and Vagrant as well as our current system using Railgun and Dev. In this post, we're going to talk about some future plans and give a few forward thoughts. Railgun and Dev accomplish most goals most…