The Complex Data Models Behind Shopify's Tax Insights Feature - Shopify

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This post details the development of the Tax Insights feature, which involved significant data modeling work, including modifying existing data models and creating four new ones. It explains the architecture for processing and storing tax-related data, utilizing Google Cloud Storage, Spark jobs, and Google Cloud Bigtable. The post also covers the process of understanding complex tax laws, prototyping data models with SQL, implementing logic, productionizing jobs with Spark, and publishing insights to merchants.