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Building the Universal Commerce Protocol

AI & Machine Learning

Building the Universal Commerce Protocol

We built UCP to power agentic commerce. Here's the architecture behind it.

by Ilya Grigorik

Jan 11, 2026

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Tangle: An open-source ML experimentation platform built at Shopify scale

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Tangle: An open-source ML experimentation platform built at Shopify scale

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Behind the build: 2025's BFCM globe in a pinball machine 🌎🕹️

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Shopify 2025 BFCM Live Globe

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Building world-class product search at Shopify: Where C++ excellence meets ML innovation

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