"Guilherme Carreiro: I am so excited to talk about theme systems today. I really like customizable software. Most of the good software, good apps we use today, they have some level of customizability. You can change fonts, colors, backgrounds. With Shopify, it's no different. Shopify is a platform that allows merchants to create their online stores. You have shipping. You have inventory. You have everything that you need to run your business."
"One important thing is that merchants, they can really change anything here. It's something very special because we have millions of merchants, and even though they share the same foundations, they're very different between each other. How do we scale a software that can render anything, like the pages can have any kind of element there? How can you do this in a way that you can set some standards for your users or the buyers?"
Theme systems enable merchants to customize storefronts by changing fonts, colors, backgrounds, layout, and components. Merchants can build diverse stores on a shared platform while tailoring visual elements and structure to their brand. The platform must render arbitrary pages and accommodate last-minute merchant updates and heavy buyer traffic simultaneously. During the Black Friday/Cyber Monday peak, the platform handles almost 60 million requests per minute, requiring robust scaling and performance strategies. The editor provides live controls for color schemes, image positioning, resizing, and adding components, which supports flexible design choices while maintaining stable performance under high load.
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