How We Built Oxygen: Hydrogen’s Counterpart for Hosting Custom Storefronts - Shopify

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This post introduces Oxygen, a new hosting platform for Hydrogen custom storefronts. It details the technical choices made, including leveraging Cloudflare Workers for edge distribution and runtime, GitHub Actions for CI/CD, and integrating with Shopify's existing services (CDN, Admin API, IAM). It also describes the architecture involving Gateway Workers and Storefront Workers, the use of Cloudflare's Dynamic Dispatch API, and the development of a separate observability stack (Grafana, Cortex, Loki, Tempo) for custom storefronts. The post highlights contributions to the WinterCG community group and the partnership with Cloudflare.