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Building a flow editor
Engineering
DEC 2, 2025

Building a flow editor

Bringing our network tab to life with zero dependencies

Author:Oguzhan Olguncu
Oguzhan Olguncu
Why we're leaving serverless
Engineering
AUG 1, 2025

Why we're leaving serverless

Author:Andreas Thomas
Andreas Thomas
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Engineering
MAY 9, 2025

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Building an auth abstraction layer for frictionless local development

Author:Meg Stepp
Meg Stepp
Zen
Engineering
MAR 13, 2025

Zen

A Minimalist HTTP Library for Go

Author:Andreas Thomas
Andreas Thomas
Building complex UI queries in plain English with AI
Engineering
JAN 27, 2025

Building complex UI queries in plain English with AI

Just ask 'Show me logs from yesterday' and AI finds them. No more clicking filters - type what you want, like you're texting a friend. Simple log search that just works.

Author:Oguzhan Olguncu
Oguzhan Olguncu
Approximating row counts
Engineering
NOV 25, 2024

Approximating row counts

Caching count(*) queries without a cache

Author:Andreas Thomas
Andreas Thomas
Fixing serverless with a $5 VPS
Engineering
APR 24, 2024

Fixing serverless with a $5 VPS

How we are supporting our serverless API with servers to scale beyond the limits of serverless.

Author:Andreas Thomas
Andreas Thomas
High frequency real-time usage based billing
Engineering
MAR 1, 2024

High frequency real-time usage based billing

Building a real-time billing pipeline for millions of daily events

Author:Andreas Thomas
Andreas Thomas
The UX of UUIDs
Engineering
DEC 7, 2023

The UX of UUIDs

Unique identifiers play a crucial role in all applications, from user authentication to resource management. While using a standard UUID will satisfy all your security concerns, there’s a lot we can improve for our users.

Author:Andreas Thomas
Andreas Thomas
Why we built Unkey
Product
JUL 4, 2023

Why we built Unkey

Why we built Unkey for API keys and rate limiting, and what features we have.

Author:James Perkins
James Perkins

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