Schema-first pgTable definitions and drizzle-kit migrations keep my Shopify backend predictable across 6 projects. Type-safe joins with the relations API and partial selects shaved 380ms off my product list endpoint. Prepared statements and conditional and/or builders handle hot-path webhook traffic without query rewrites. Transactions and JSONB metafield mirroring keep Shopify webhooks idempotent under retry storms. Drizzle index hints plus the Neon serverless driver dropped my cold start from 1.2s to 180ms. I run a one-person studio. My Shopify backends sit behind a Postgres database (Neon, mostly) and need to handle webhooks, mirror catalog data, and serve a few admin dashboards. After shipping six of these in the past year, I keep reaching for the same Drizzle ORM patterns. They are boring on purpose. Boring code survives webhook retries at 3am. I picked Drizzle ORM after a year on Prisma and three months on raw pg .…