Every public API has to say no sometimes. Until recently, we were saying it too late. Every request reached our API gateway and a Lambda before we decided whether to rate limit it.

Support teams talk to customers in whatever language those customers use. If you only read English, a message in Japanese or Portuguese is not much use to you.

How and why we went all in on local-first state management for the front-end at Plain

A deep dive into how we built a trusted Slack integration for Plain while working with an unusually complex communication channel and balancing speed and reliability.

Errors are a part of every application. The simplest approach you could take is to not handle any errors, but that's not great for code deployed to production.

Find out how we build serverless applications at Plain and what makes our developer experience truly magical.