The pre-peak code freeze, and what it should cover
A freeze that stops everything gets broken by the first urgent request and then means nothing. Freeze the things that cannot be undone from the admin, and leave the rest open.
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Operations posts
Everything we have written on operations, 28 posts, newest first.
28 posts on operations
CategoryOperations
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.
What to do in the last week before Black Friday
Nothing you build in the last week will beat anything you rehearse in it. The work is proving the discounts, the rollback and the rota, and saying no to everything else.
Planning a Shopify roadmap you can actually deliver
Most ecommerce roadmaps are a list of things somebody wanted. This is how to build one that survives contact with a trading year.
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Free store audit
A senior Shopify engineer reviews your storefront, theme performance and checkout, then sends a prioritized list of fixes.
