Presentation: Theme Systems at Scale: How To Build Highly Customizable Software

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Learn how to build highly customizable software at scale with secure domain-specific languages and native code extensions

advanced Published 1 Jun 2026
Action Steps
  1. Build a domain-specific language to abstract complexity and improve security
  2. Implement native code extensions to enhance performance and flexibility
  3. Design a resilient developer tooling system to support customization at scale
  4. Configure a theme system to balance design flexibility with low-latency performance
  5. Test and optimize the system for massive traffic and scalability
Who Needs to Know This

Software engineers, architects, and technical leads can benefit from this lesson to design and implement scalable and customizable systems

Key Insight

💡 Balancing design flexibility with low-latency performance is crucial for building highly customizable software at scale

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Learn how to build highly customizable software at scale with secure domain-specific languages and native code extensions

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Shopify Staff Engineer Guilherme Carreiro discusses building and scaling highly customizable platforms. Using Shopify’s Liquid theme system as a case study, he explains how to balance extreme design flexibility with low-latency performance under massive traffic. He shares insights on implementing secure domain-specific languages, native code extensions, and resilient developer tooli
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