# Schematizing Deletion at Scale

DevFeed: [Schematizing Deletion at Scale](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/schematizing-deletion-at-scale-1485.md>)

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

Author: Behrooz Shafiee

Published: 2021-06-10T15:30:00Z

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: [pii](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/pii.md>), [Shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/shopify.md>), [data-processing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data-processing.md>), [Structured-data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/structured-data.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [JSON](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/json.md>), [Kafka](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kafka.md>)

Tags: [collaboration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/collaboration.md>), [data-processing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-processing.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [json](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/json.md>), [kafka](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kafka.md>), [pii](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pii.md>), [schema](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/schema.md>), [shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/shopify.md>)

## AI overview

Shopify describes building a schematization platform to manage personally identifiable information in a large event data warehouse. The system uses Kafka-collected events, human-readable JSON schemas, privacy metadata, and enforced event structure to support reliable deletion and data processing at scale.

## Source excerpt

Building Shopify's schematization platform for managing Personally Identifiable Information (PII) within our data warehouse.