Cloud and infrastructure
Shopify Engineering
1.6× since 2022shopify.engineering · 429 posts · 780k words · Oct 2010 to Sep 2026
129 of 192 months in that span carried a post, 63 none. 1 loaded without countable prose.
Per 1k words, 2024–now
1.89
Per 1k words, 2018–2022
1.16
Em dashes counted
929
Posts with at least one
56%
Em dashes per post
Monthly1.33
12-month average4.46
Shopify Engineering, latest month in the corpusBy year
En dashes are counted alongside as a control: if em dashes climb while en dashes hold flat, that is a change in writing style rather than a change in typography.
| Year | Posts | Em dashes | Per 1k words | En per 1k | Share of posts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 22 | 77 | 1.86 | 0.00 | 64% |
| 2025 | 20 | 101 | 2.82 | 0.22 | 75% |
| 2024 | 8 | 7 | 0.34 | 0.24 | 38% |
| 2023 | 28 | 73 | 1.22 | 0.20 | 64% |
| 2022 | 104 | 343 | 1.67 | 0.10 | 79% |
| 2021 | 68 | 147 | 1.01 | 0.10 | 54% |
| 2020 | 56 | 94 | 0.81 | 0.04 | 54% |
| 2019 | 31 | 24 | 0.46 | 0.00 | 42% |
| 2018 | 29 | 30 | 0.82 | 0.00 | 52% |
| 2017 | 19 | 10 | 0.43 | 0.00 | 21% |
| 2016 | 7 | 15 | 2.84 | 0.00 | 57% |
| 2015 | 8 | 4 | 0.43 | 0.00 | 25% |
| 2014 | 4 | 3 | 0.58 | 0.00 | 25% |
| 2013 | 4 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0% |
| 2012 | 3 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0% |
| 2011 | 15 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0% |
| 2010 | 3 | 1 | 0.42 | 3.39 | 33% |