Battling ticket bots and untangling taxes at the frontiers of e-commerce

On today's episode we chat with Ilya Grigorik, a Distinguished Engineer and Technical Advisor to the CEO at Shopify. From battling hordes of bots trying to scalp seats before humans can get their hands on concert tickets, to automatically handling relevant tax codes and regulations across countries and states so small merchants can focus on their business, Ilya shares some of the projects he enjoys most and the challenges that make e-commerce interesting for software developers. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/08/16/ilya-grigorik-shopify-ticket-bots-taxes-scale-software/

созданный 11mo | 16 авг. 2024 г., 16:40:06


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