Building a Business System Integration and Automation Platform at Shopify - Shopify

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This post details the development of a business system integration and automation platform at Shopify, built on Ruby on Rails. It addresses the gap left by modularization of business systems and the limitations of external IPaaS solutions like Mulesoft. The platform's design priorities include being minimal, transparent, flexible, secure, and reusable. Implementation details cover documentation, leveraging Ruby language features, using Rails Engines for modularity, eliminating data storage to promote transparency and security, employing 'Actions' for business logic, and embracing hashes for data flow transparency. The platform aims to enable reliable integrations built quickly by reusing existing infrastructure and code.