Engineering insights

Meet Hobi, Zapier's context engine to protect customer data

Hobi, our new context engine, allows Zapier to keep customer data safe.

LCH: Easier accessibility and prettier colors

The lightness, chroma, hue color space was created to be perceptually uniform and easy for humans to work with. We used LCH to enhance the accessibility for accent colors within our design system.

5 recommendations when running Thanos and Prometheus

Historical service metrics are essential to making good decisions for the future. This is how we used Thanos and Prometheus to store 130 TB of metrics, keep data for years, and provide metrics within a few seconds.

The journey of secrets in Kubernetes at Zapier

Secrets management is a very important part of continuous deployment and infrastructure as code.

The architecture behind Zapier's Zap History pages

Whenever a Zapier user wants to review what Zaps have run in their account, they visit their Zap History. Built on Next.js, the architecture that supports the Zap History pages, surfaces individual information about millions of Zap runs to our users.