# Quick: An internal hosting platform for the AI era

DevFeed: [Quick: An internal hosting platform for the AI era](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/quick-an-internal-hosting-platform-for-the-ai-era-1525.md>)

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

Author: Daniel Beauchamp

Published: 2026-06-10T12:49:23Z

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: [hosting](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hosting.md>), [Shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/shopify.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [nginx](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/nginx.md>), [HTML](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/html.md>), [Filesystems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/filesystems.md>), [Web Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-development.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [hosting](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hosting.md>), [html](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/html.md>), [server](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/server.md>), [shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/shopify.md>), [storage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/storage.md>)

## AI overview

Shopify's Quick is an internal hosting platform that lets employees publish folders of HTML and assets to secure, employee-only URLs without frameworks, deployment pipelines, or configuration files. The article describes its Google Cloud Storage and NGINX architecture, Identity-Aware Proxy authentication, local-folder upload workflow, and planned API capabilities for data, file storage, and AI-related functionality.

## Source excerpt

Quick lets anyone at Shopify ship a site in seconds. It has changed the culture of how we build and share.