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Technical insights, problem-solving notes, and best practices from real-world projects.

ShopifyWebhookNestJS

Shopify-to-Medusa | Phase One of a Progressive Migration

Rather than rebuilding an entire Shopify store from scratch, we adopted a progressive migration strategy. The first phase focuses on building a reliable data synchronization layer using webhooks, asynchronous workers, scheduled snapshots, retry mechanisms, dead letter queues, and message replay. This foundation keeps Shopify running while continuously syncing products, customers, and orders into an internal database, enabling future modules to be migrated safely and incrementally.

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KafkaClickHouse

Kafka + ClickHouse High-Performance Analytics in Practice — Performance Challenges and Solutions Amid Data Growth

As our business continued to grow, user scale and data volumes expanded exponentially. The original monolithic synchronous write approach began to expose significant performance bottlenecks. This post shares how we evolved from a single MongoDB architecture to a Kafka + ClickHouse analytics platform in production, and the lessons we learned.

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