# How Shopify Uses WebAssembly Outside of the Browser

DevFeed: [How Shopify Uses WebAssembly Outside of the Browser](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-shopify-uses-webassembly-outside-of-the-browser-1611.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://shopify.engineering/shopify-webassembly>)

Author: Duncan Uszkay

Published: 2020-12-18T16:30:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering.md>), [Shopify Engineering - Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering-shopify-engineering.md>)

Topics: [WebAssembly](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-assembly.md>), [Shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/shopify.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [Deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/deployment.md>), [App](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/app.md>), [Latency](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/latency.md>), [Network](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/network.md>), [Web Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-development.md>)

Tags: [app](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/app.md>), [browser](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/browser.md>), [deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/deployment.md>), [latency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/latency.md>), [network](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/network.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/shopify.md>), [web](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web.md>), [webassembly](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/webassembly.md>)

## AI overview

Shopify describes using WebAssembly to run untrusted Partner code on its own infrastructure, reducing the need for Partners to operate scalable web services and avoiding network latency for time-sensitive use cases.

## Source excerpt

At Shopify, we're keeping the flexibility of untrusted Partner code, but executing it on our own infrastructure with WebAssembly.