Alex Beeson

👷 Field Engineering @ SpaceXAI | ex-Shopify

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Dario is right

[tobi lutke @tobi]

Added a PR for better embedded markdown in cmux. Now supports code highlighting, meremaid and Vega-lite diagrams (try it!), and has convenient copy as markdown / copy as html buttons. Cmux is great.

[tobi lutke @tobi]

Yesterday was an incredible day for our merchants and for Shopify:

* Merchants drove a record-breaking $5 billion Black Friday in sales (GMV)

* Peak sales / minute for yesterday = $4.6 million

* Shopify's egress processed more than 173B requests

* Peak requests per minute was at 284 million on edge, with more than 80 million on app servers pushing 12TB a minute

* 45 million peak database queries per second, peak database writes was 7.6 million per second

* We rely on Kafka. At peak we hit 66 million messages per second

Let's keep going 🔥

[Alex Beeson @BeesonAlex]

@nickywonka Congrats! Going to have to come out with “Red-Eye” Squares now!

[Alex Beeson @BeesonAlex]

@SimonJalbert SEND

[Alex Beeson @BeesonAlex]

@benjaminsehl @ZameerMasjedee Tommy Thompson park is unmatched, used to do that run all the time, can’t recommend it enough!

[Alex Beeson @BeesonAlex]

@colepatkinson @Shopify Incredible changes to Shopify’s fundamental tech to make this happen in a relatively short period of time. Love to see it!

[Alex Beeson @BeesonAlex]

@ZackHonarvar @rgbedin @creatornow_ Excited to read it!

[Alex Beeson @BeesonAlex]

@M_Gagliano @soundslikecanoe Looks like it was a Shopify-wide issue that week! I haven’t read what caused it yet.

[Alex Beeson @BeesonAlex]

🍾🚀 And we haven’t even scratched the surface of what this platform, and this team are capable of!

Alright, back to work ⚡️

[Jonah Wolfraim @jonahwolfraim]

As an insider at Shopify, I can confirm this was and still is a deliberate business strategy, not just a positioning statement.

It started by getting buy in internally, getting every employee to start their own biz. It rippled thru from mktg to product to HR.

[Alex Beeson @BeesonAlex]

@Shopify This is too clever haha 😂

[Penny Oleksiak @OleksiakPenny]

Trust me at the top it isn’t lonely

[Alex Beeson @BeesonAlex]

@2PMinc @LorenPadelford @ShopifyPlus You should frame this tweet @LorenPadelford 😂😂

[tobi lutke @tobi]

Win and help win thinking. Best antidote to zero sum thinking.

[Alex Beeson @BeesonAlex]

@mkryshtalskyj @WildwoodCA @Shopify Right on! Lmk if a former Solutions Engineer at @Shopify can help with your launch at all!

[Anishinabek Nation @AnishNation]

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[Alex Beeson @BeesonAlex]

@_TrishalaPillai Super cool @_TrishalaPillai! Congrats!

[Alex Beeson @BeesonAlex]

@web @Spotify Love it! Any recommended playlists to follow to start getting into some of these composers??

[Alex Beeson @BeesonAlex]

@ZackHonarvar Following 😉