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#15 - Jean Michel Lemieux // CTO Shopify

Author
Tobias Schlottke - alphalist CTO Podcast
Published
Thu 03 Dec 2020
Episode Link
https://alphalist.com/podcast/15-jean-michel-lemieux-cto-shopify?utm_source=podigee&utm_medium=referral

This time I had Jean Michel Lemieux or short JML, the CTO of 🛒 Shopify 🛒 in the podcast.
Craziest fact: He took the time two days before black Friday 💥. In the podcast he also told me why.


We spoke about:



  • His fight against crazy 👟 sneaker - sniping - bots and how Shopify keeps people
    in line happy with games

  • What it takes to run the largest Ruby on Rails (majestic ;-)) monolith on the planet

  • Why he does not believe in microservice architecture but still runs some services

  • How he keeps his 2000 engineer army aligned

  • Why he still sells stuff for kids online through his own platform


It was crazy fun, even if I missed the swearing after David Heinemeier Hansson took that route.

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