I’m in the middle of quite a large project at the moment using server-side Swift (via the Perfect toolkit) that talks a lot to the Shopify Admin API. After writing the same code several times to format dates to the RFC3339 standard like Shopify quite rightly desires, I face-palmed and refactored.

// DateExtensions.swift
// nw360Core

This week we had a significant escalation in traffic on a particular server. It was not unexpected, however we had changed infrastructure between peak periods and I was keen to see how the new network and virtual machine were coping under the load. It’s an easy thing to do to monitor the processing load on.