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Traffic spike during a flash sale? Your app shouldn’t fall over because of a rate limit.

Gadget’s Surge feature lets apps temporarily scale past their normal limits during high-traffic events like BFCM without changing plans.

Opt in, scale automatically, and only pay for the extra compute.

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@BuildWithZach @render Love seeing builders use the right tools for the right projects. Excited to see what you migrate over to Gadget this week 👀

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Shopify just introduced a major upgrade to webhooks in developer preview.

Instead of receiving massive payloads for every event, you can now define a GraphQL query and receive only the fields your app actually needs.

Less compute. Less processing. Lower costs.

Watch the full walk through to see how to set it up and upsert products in Gadget:
https://t.co/T4KRhg4lvY

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Shopify just made usage-based billing a first-class feature for apps.

Build a full Shopify app with subscription + metered pricing using Gadget, including OAuth, billing logic, usage tracking, and deployment.

Watch the full video walkthrough on YouTube:
https://t.co/2roLRGtE5V

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Building a 3D shipment tracker inside Shopify’s Shop app meant rebuilding most of the globe rendering logic from scratch.

Using Three.js + Gadget, @DewolfeJulien handled:

→ Custom globe rendering
→ Animated shipment arcs
→ Auth + session handling
→ Shipment tracking APIs

Read the full breakdown: https://t.co/Ssdouxiw6u

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Spent weeks wrestling with OAuth and Heroku just to ship a simple Shopify app? There’s a better way.

When Tanmay (@tkejr_) tried building his first Shopify app for a friend, it turned into weeks of setup, scattered docs, and infra headaches.

Then he switched to Gadget.

→ Built apps 5x faster
→ Went from solo dev to running an agency
→ Even sold one of his apps
→ No more managing backend infrastructure

Read the full case study: https://t.co/SXwmmJ7Nle

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Postgres read metrics hitting terabytes? That’s usually normal.

But if a small number of queries are reading disproportionate amounts of data, it may be time to optimize.

Watch how Postgres handles reads vs. writes and why writes are often 1000x smaller👇

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Want to streamline Shopify app development?

Fayyaz walks through building a full-stack app on Gadget, covering OAuth, webhooks, and GraphQL without the backend boilerplate.

Watch the tutorial: https://t.co/Gn7QbHqLLU

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Gadget v1.7.0 makes Shopify TOML the source of truth for your app config.

One file for scopes, webhooks, and settings. Fully aligned with the Shopify CLI for simpler source control and deploys.

Read the full breakdown of what’s new in v1.7.0: https://t.co/2DgTxjBeij

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Seeing “shark fins” in your performance graphs? 🦈 That’s a classic Node.js Out of Memory (OOM) error.

Watch how we spot these errors, track “JS stack trace” in logs, and debug memory issues efficiently.

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@phoebusprophit Helping builders get from 0→1 faster (and sharing what we learn along the way) is exactly the goal🙌

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We set out to cut costs on observability and ended up rebuilding our incident response workflow.

By using agent skills to migrate our stack to Grafana & ClickHouse:
- Our monthly observability bill dropped ~60% ($20k → $8k)
- Root Cause Analysis investigations went from days to hours
- Any engineer can use agents to run our 8-phase RCA playbook

Read the full blog post to see how we did it: https://t.co/Fyv6beOrnN

[Gadget @gadget_dev]

When Hervé Guétin built Brush, an open-source Shopify Custom App starter kit, he needed a backend that could handle auth, data sync, and deployment without the usual headaches.

Enter Gadget.

Here’s how it helped:
1. PaaS that just works – built-in DB, ORM, routing, dev/prod environments. No DevOps stress.
2. Shopify integration handled – installs, permissions, API updates, data modeling… all automatic.
3.  Production-ready day one – Brush is already running in production.

With Gadget, Hervé could focus on features and value, not backend complexity.

Learn more: https://t.co/3Dpfg4HGFn

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Is your Node.js worker quietly drowning?

Sustained 100% event loop utilization leads to growing backlogs, slow system performance, and timeout errors.

Here’s how to spot an overloaded worker early and avoid CPU-blocking pitfalls 👇

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Building custom apps for every client was slowing Aligent down. Weeks were spent on rebuilds, redeploys, and infrastructure for each store.

With Gadget handling hosting, integrations, and deployment, they now ship reusable apps globally in hours.

“With Gadget, we almost have the opposite problem. It's so easy to ship apps, we have to be specific about what we want to build.” - Jarrod Swift, CTO

Read the full case study: https://t.co/sWRwDUyNnC

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Privacy and compliance are quickly becoming foundational parts of the Shopify app stack.

Great to see builders tackling these challenges and glad Gadget can help power some of that work 🙌

[Yuvraj Kewate @uvkewate]

🎙️ New episode is live.

I spoke with @ElL3Na_ , Founder of @consentmo : one of the leading GDPR & privacy compliance apps on Shopify.

We discussed:

• Why privacy & compliance are becoming critical for e-commerce
• The complexity of building in the GDPR space
• How merchants should think about consent management

Watch here: https://t.co/pvnYCshiaB

Also a quick shoutout to a couple of amazing builders in the Shopify ecosystem:
👏 @jon_kennedy1 for building App Store Research, making it easier for Shopify app founders to connect with real merchants and validate ideas.

👏 @gadget_dev for making it incredibly simple to build and launch Shopify apps using their platform.

#ShopifyApps #SaaS #ShopifyPartners #GDPR #Ecommerce

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Want the full walkthrough?

We break down the architecture, auth flow, and how the homepage + settings pages work step by step here: https://t.co/3B6OGiSU9H

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Missing a bird’s-eye view in your HubSpot app?

We built an App Home + Settings page on Gadget that shows every company, team, and contact, powered by just 2 HubSpot API calls.

https://t.co/MdZ9BnFQUO

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Can vinext (Next.js on Vite) run inside a Gadget app?

We tried it and got Next-style routing while keeping Gadget’s managed backend, Postgres, and auth.

The trick: a custom Vite middleware plugin.

We wrote up the full engineering breakdown (including the exact Vite config we used): https://t.co/UlzSnvDdNy

Prefer a walkthrough? Watch the video: https://t.co/aExZfBOWml