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