# The Journey to Cloud Development: How Shopify Went All-in on Spin

DevFeed: [The Journey to Cloud Development: How Shopify Went All-in on Spin](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-journey-to-cloud-development-how-shopify-went-all-in-on-spin-1612.md>)

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

Author: Don Kelly

Published: 2022-06-09T20:00:00Z

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: [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [Shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/shopify.md>), [Ruby](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ruby.md>), [coding](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/coding.md>), [MySQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mysql.md>), [Redis](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/redis.md>), [Processes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/processes.md>), [Deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/deployment.md>)

Tags: [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [coding](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/coding.md>), [complexity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/complexity.md>), [deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/deployment.md>), [developer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer.md>), [integrations](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/integrations.md>), [mysql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mysql.md>), [processes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/processes.md>), [redis](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/redis.md>), [ruby](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ruby.md>), [shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/shopify.md>), [workflow](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/workflow.md>)

## AI overview

Shopify describes how increasing project complexity and growth outgrew its laptop-based Ruby development environment. The company moved toward cloud development with Spin to support interconnected repositories and services while automating repetitive developer workflow tasks.

## Source excerpt

How we reinvented our developer environment by going cloud native to keep up with increasing complexity and exponential growth.