Most integrations rely on an extraction process. But REST APIs don't make extraction easy. Follow these design patterns to avoid common pitfalls....

NATS has a ton of great features. From pub/sub to JetStream, here's our team's takeaways after spending some time with NATS....

Sequin is a new alternative to Heroku Connect. How does it compare? Put simply, the main differences between Sequin and Heroku Connect are infrastructure options, price, and developer experience....

We just launched new sources, an improved developer experience, partnerships, and Sequin Events. Get a wrap up of everything we shipped....

Embeddings let you search, cluster, and categorize GitHub data in a whole new way. One thing you can build is an advanced search tool across all your org's Pull Requests, Issues, etc....

We’re announcing the alpha for one of our most requested features: events! You can now subscribe to events on the sources we sync using Kafka and Webhooks....

Today, we’re announcing new features to help you manage your schema, work with migrations, and build apps on the best app-building platforms....

We’re excited to announce support for one of our most requested sources: GitHub! Use your database to read from and write to your repositories, PRs, and issues....

Announcing that Stripe is now available as a new source in Sequin! You can spin up a Stripe sync today and start building apps with your customer, product, invoice, and subscription tables in your database....

Use OpenAI to generate embeddings for your Salesforce objects and store them in Postgres. Then, you can easily build powerful search and clustering tools on top of your Salesforce data....

Working with data at rest is where Postgres shines. But what about when you need data in motion? What about when you need to trigger a workflow based on changes to a table? Fortunately, Postgres comes with a lot of options to make this happen....

We knew building a database proxy would be hard. We wanted to find *any* other way to achieve our mission. But alas, after looking at all the options, only one solution remained standing. Here, I share our journey to the inescapable conclusion....

A step-by-step process of how to leverage Retool and Sequin to build a tailored app that enriches Salesforce data with ease....

Let's look at how we can use `:noreply` and `GenServer.reply` to allow a GenServer to continue working even while its `call`ers wait for the result of long-running operations....

We’re Sequin. We stream data from services like Salesforce, Stripe, and AWS to messaging systems like Kafka and databases like Postgres. It’s the fastest way to build high-performance integrations you don’t need to worry about. 💡Update: SQL writes was a neat feature, and we learned a lot....

At any scale, integrating with HubSpot becomes a syncing problem. Here's how to build a sync between HubSpot and your database....

An outline of the options available in the Elixir BREAK menu....

Stripe events can be out of order. Here's how we use cursor logic to keep everything consistent....

How to set up a sync between HubSpot and Postgres so you can integrate faster....

Hitting the rate limit with your integration? Sequin now gives you simple tools to manage your rate limit. Never worry about the rate limit again....

Learn how we use the Salesforce APIs to reliably retrieve every change in your CRM....

You don't just set and forget metered billing; you repeatedly report per-customer usage to Stripe. We're using our own product to make that simpler....

We’re Sequin. We stream data from services like Salesforce, Stripe, and AWS to messaging systems like Kafka and databases like Postgres. It’s the fastest way to build high-performance integrations you don’t need to worry about. We're built on Elixir - and love it. We recently...

Do you make it easy for consumers to find out what's changed in your API?...

HubSpot's just doesn't offer enough Webhooks. What should you do?...

We'll explore when to use an interface versus a script or custom Airtable App. We'll also walk through a practical use case to give you a sense of the build experience and functionality....

How we're using our own Stripe sync to monitor subscription status....

How to calculate your MRR on Stripe using SQL....

How to manage Stripe application data while keeping Stripe as the source of truth....

Webhooks come with some challenges. We prefer polling an /events endpoint instead when possible....

At Sequin, we replicate APIs to Postgres databases in real-time. We want to provide our customers with the experience of having direct, row-level access to their data from third-party platforms, like Stripe and Airtable....

At Sequin, we replicate APIs to Postgres databases in real-time. We want to provide our customers with the experience of having direct, row-level access to their data from third-party platforms, like Stripe and Airtable. After the concept of Sequin crystallized, we knew we had to get something to market quickly....

Now you can get a replica Postgres database with all your Stripe data, synced in real-time. It’s like having row-level access to your data in stripe_prod....

I wanted to get to the bottom of what caused writes to slow down so significantly....

The first iteration of most software is a prototype. The purpose of a prototype is to validate a hypothesis or learn more about a market. Because a prototype is likely to undergo radical changes or total abandonment in face of the information it uncovers, the faster you can generate a...

An update to the developer's guide to include Airtable's new Webhook triggers in automations....

A deep dive into all the ways to build on Airtable....

I was surprised when a customer wrote in to explain that he noticed - for simple SQL queries - the Airtable API was about as performant as querying his Sequin-provisioned Airtable database. We'd expect a database query to be at least an order of magnitude faster than an...

In this guide, you'll unlock your Airtable data with some killer PostgreSQL methods....