Rate limits: designing an integration that does not throttle
Throttling is rarely a limit problem. It is an architecture problem: several jobs sharing one bucket, polling for data that Shopify would have pushed to you.
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Mitesh Patel
Technical Project Manager at Lucent Commerce. 20 posts, newest first.
20 posts by Mitesh Patel
Shopify Flow: automation that replaces an app
Shopify lists Flow as free on Basic, Grow, Advanced and Plus, and it quietly replaces a whole category of small monthly apps. It is also the wrong tool for about a third of what people ask it to do.
The Admin GraphQL API: pagination, cost and bulk operations
Most Shopify integrations are throttled because they ask for too much per query, then retry harder. Read the cost object and the problem goes away.
The app audit: what every installed app costs you
The monthly fee is the cost everyone can see and the smallest one. An app also costs you data reach, theme surface area and a dependency nobody wrote down.
The data warehouse question for a mid-market merchant
Most stores asking for a warehouse want four numbers nobody agrees on. A warehouse will not settle the argument. It will just host it at higher cost.
The staging strategy for a store that never stops trading
Shopify has no staging environment and is not going to grow one. What it has is enough, if you know which of the four available environments each kind of change belongs in.
Theme app extensions: apps that do not touch your code
What Shopify theme app extensions are, how they differ from pasted snippets, and why “does it use one?” should shape which apps you buy.
When a custom app becomes a product
You built something for one store and it works. Turning it into an App Store listing is not a distribution change. Shopify will not let it be one. It is a second app and a second business.
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