Updating Illustrations at Scale - Shopify
Jun 3, 2021

Summary
This post details the development of `@shopify/get-repo-images`, an open-source tool built in Go, to address the challenge of managing and updating illustrations at scale across thousands of repositories. The tool enables illustrators and developers to find images, their references in code, and provides an API and website for browsing, filtering, and sorting results. The implementation was a rewrite from a Node.js prototype to Go for significant performance gains, reducing build times and improving developer experience.