2025-09-05 –, Lecture Hall
Over the past year at Shopify we've undergone a lot of changes internally. We moved from cloud development to local development, multirepo to monorepo, and Homebrew / Apt to Nix. Today, the majority of development is being done inside Nix-based environments. Some may recall that Shopify was using Nix back in 2019[1], so what happened?
This talk will cover:
* Why that effort stalled
* How devenv reignited interest in Nix
* How we approached incrementally migrating a huge collection of projects
* Where we're at today, and lessons learned along the way
* The many benefits Nix has brought
* The challenges of supporting a large polygot org with developers working at every layer of the stack
* Where we're headed
Working on developer tooling at Shopify from Saskatoon, Canada.