Releases
2.14: streaming responses, and a breaking change
Responses can now stream. The v1 batch endpoint is removed, six months after deprecation. Upgrade notes inside...
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Releases
2.13: rate limits you can see
Every response now says how much of your limit is left and when it resets. The dashboard shows the same, per key...
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Incidents
Incident: the cache that lied for forty minutes
On 14 August, reads returned stale data for forty-one minutes. What happened, what we did, and what changes...
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Engineering
How we test a migration before it runs
Every schema change runs against a copy of production, twice, before it touches production once. The pipeline, in detail...
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Releases
2.12: the CLI gets a diff
digest diff shows what an apply would change, before it changes it. Also: config validation, and a faster login...
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Guides
Guide: zero-downtime key rotation
Rotate an API key without a second of failed requests, using overlapping keys and the grace period...
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Engineering
Why our error messages have a number
Every error Digest returns carries a stable code. What the codes are for, and how we stop them changing...
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Releases
2.11: exports
Export any query to CSV, JSON or Parquet. Runs in the background, notifies when done, and keeps the file for seven days...
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Incidents
Incident: a bad deploy on a Friday
A configuration change took the API down for six minutes on 3 July. Short account, and why we now deploy on Fridays anyway...
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Guides
Guide: reading a trace
Every request has a trace. Here is how to find it, what each span means, and how to tell our latency from yours...
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Releases
2.10: webhooks retry
Failed deliveries retry with exponential backoff for 24 hours. The delivery log shows every attempt...
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Engineering
The queue we replaced
Three years on a message broker, one month on a table in the database. What we gained, what we gave up, and the numbers...
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