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Background jobs and queues that survive a bad day
ENGINEERING

Background jobs and queues that survive a bad day

The work that happens after the response is sent is where reliability quietly breaks. Here is how we made our async tier boring.

Mar 9, 2026 · 1 min read
Stratum CLI
PRODUCT

The Stratum CLI: designing a tool used by 80,000 teams

A CLI is often the first touch point developers have with your platform, and first impressions compound. Every design decision we made while building the Stratum CLI from scratch — for 80,000 teams across 140 countries — and what we would do differently today.

Feb 24, 2026 · 3 min read
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AI / ML

Designing idempotent APIs for safe retries

Networks fail and clients retry. Idempotency keys let a request run exactly once even when it arrives twice. Here is the pattern we use to make writes safe to repeat across the whole platform.

Sep 14, 2021 · 2 min read
Zero-downtime deployment
PLATFORM

Zero-downtime deployments: lessons from 10 billion requests

After processing over 10 billion deployment requests, we have learned what it takes to achieve true zero-downtime deploys. The answer involves far more than a simple blue-green traffic switch — it demands coordinated health probing, connection draining, and a rollback system that fires before a single user sees an error.

May 14, 2026 · 3 min read
Structured logging that stays affordable at scale
OBSERVABILITY

Structured logging that stays affordable at scale

Logs are the first thing you reach for in an incident and the first bill that spirals out of control. We rebuilt our logging pipeline to stay searchable without breaking the budget.

May 8, 2026 · 1 min read
Distributed tracing: from a latency spike to the root cause
ENGINEERING

Distributed tracing: from a latency spike to the root cause

When a request is slow, the question is always "where?". Tracing turns that guess into a timeline you can read.

Mar 21, 2026 · 1 min read

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