# Shopify's Playbook for Scaling Machine Learning

DevFeed: [Shopify's Playbook for Scaling Machine Learning](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/shopify-s-playbook-for-scaling-machine-learning-1605.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://shopify.engineering/shopify-playbook-scaling-machine-learning>)

Author: Solmaz Shahalizadeh

Published: 2022-02-11T19:30:01Z

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: [Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/machine-learning-artificial-intelligence.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [Shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/shopify.md>), [Algorithm](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/algorithm.md>), [Amazon S3](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon-s3.md>)

Tags: [algorithm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/algorithm.md>), [building](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/building.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [fraud-detection](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/fraud-detection.md>), [guide](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/guide.md>), [machine-learning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/machine-learning.md>), [organization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/organization.md>), [s3](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/s3.md>), [shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/shopify.md>)

## AI overview

Shopify shares a pragmatic, technology-independent playbook for scaling machine learning across an organization. The guide emphasizes choosing a worthwhile user problem, understanding the business domain, and ensuring that high-quality, accessible data is available. Shopify illustrates these principles with its initial order fraud detection problem.

## Source excerpt

Through our experience building our first few models, Shopify Data carved out a pragmatic step-by-step guide that has enabled us to successfully scale machine learning across our organization.