4 Questions Open Source Engineers Should Ask To Mitigate Risk At Scale
opensource.com, February 20th, 2023
What do you do with a finite amount of time to deal with an infinite number of things that can go wrong?
At Shopify, we use and maintain a lot of open source projects, and every year we prepare for Black Friday Cyber Monday (BFCM) and other high-traffic events to make sure our merchants can sell to their buyers. To do this, we built an infrastructure platform at a large scale that is highly complex, interconnected, globally distributed, requiring thoughtful technology investments from a network of teams. We're changing how the internet works, where no single person can oversee the full design and detail at our scale.