Black Friday and Cyber Monday are the biggest days of the year at Shopify with respect to every metric. As the Infrastructure team started preparing for the upcoming seasonal traffic in the late summer of 2014, we were confident that we...
Behind successful use of RPA is a team of exceptional human employees. Software robots can do a lot, but they still need support from their human counterparts.
The trends we see in business process automation are happening in traditional automation as well. Meet Baxter, a real robot who will remind you a lot of RPA.
RPA is already here and continues to evolve. What's the best way to approach your robot coworkers? It might only require a small shift in your company.
I was recently profiling a production Shopify application server using perf and noticed a fair amount of time being spent in a particular function, st_lookup, which is used by Ruby’s MRI implementation for hash table lookups: Hash tables...
The modern world depends on utility providers, and RPA can produce a more efficient industry by, for example, reading meters and handling data management.
Debugging a large codebase is hard. Ruby makes debugging easier by exposing method metadata and caller stack inside Ruby's own process.
Does robotic process automation only belong in the back office? Definitely not!
In the recent history of computers and robotics, IBM's Watson was a major development that is changing the world in a very real way.
We tend to talk about the robots of robotic process automation, but that's not quite accurate. They're really no more than software designed to act like humans.
If you've resolved to give robotic process automation a try in 2015, here's a primer of posts to help you understand what this RPA thing is all about.
Blogsby Glyph