Shopify @ Replay 2026 | From Normalizing Complexity to Recognizing the Price

Shabnam Emdadi (Staff Engineer, Shopify) makes the case that most distributed teams have already normalized the symptoms of an orchestration problem: the stuck payouts, the manual cleanup jobs, the Monday morning threads. The talk walks through the warning signs that a choreographed system has outgrown its architecture, and what it actually costs to keep saying not yet to proper orchestration. Shabnam previously worked on Uber Eats, Uber Elevate, and Uber's Money Platform.

Filmed at Replay 2026: The Durable Execution Conference for AI, by Temporal.

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