# Spin Cycle: Shopify's SFN Team Overcomes a Cloud-Development Spiral

DevFeed: [Spin Cycle: Shopify's SFN Team Overcomes a Cloud-Development Spiral](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/spin-cycle-shopify-s-sfn-team-overcomes-a-cloud-development-spiral-1572.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://shopify.engineering/sfn-team-cloud-development-spin>)

Author: Jen Spinney

Published: 2022-08-04T17:30:00Z

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: [Shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/shopify.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [Kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kubernetes.md>), [Tooling](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tooling.md>), [Visual Studio Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/visual-studio-code.md>), [ssh](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ssh.md>)

Tags: [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kubernetes.md>), [shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/shopify.md>), [ssh](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ssh.md>), [technical](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/technical.md>), [tool](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tool.md>), [vscode](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vscode.md>)

## AI overview

Shopify describes how its Shopify Fulfillment Network team adapted services for Spin, a cloud-based development tool that runs on-demand development servers as ephemeral containers in Kubernetes. The article discusses the technical and human-system challenges of moving development away from local machines, including tooling compatibility, collaboration, and protection of long-lived development databases.

## Source excerpt

The process of getting SFN working on Spin, Shopify's cloud-development tool, is a great example of the kind of hidden difficulty in technical work that's more related to human systems.