June 2021 Summaries

We've been busy at Svix, improving onboarding, developer experience, documentation, and more. We released a new CLI tool called Svix CLI to interact with the Svix API, making it easier for developers to use the API. We also made onboarding easier by adding an onboarding wizard that allows users to send their first message in under 30 seconds. Additionally, we improved our management UI, added libraries for Go, Ruby, PHP, and Java, updated documentation with new API reference docs powered by redoc, and created a Slack community for customers and developers to discuss and share ideas. We also made general improvements and bug fixes to the backend, and are looking forward to releasing more updates in the future.

To send webhooks from Python using the Svix webhook service, you can install the Svix client-side libraries and get an authentication token. Then, create an application per user, save or set a unique ID for each application, and use this ID to send messages (webhooks). You can add endpoints to these messages so they are sent to specific URLs. Finally, providing your users with easy-to-use tools to safely consume webhooks is also offered by Svix. With Svix, you can start sending webhooks in under five minutes, taking care of the challenges associated with building and maintaining them.

The management UI is a pre-built UI that allows users to add endpoints, debug delivery, inspect and replay past webhook attempts. The initial way of accessing the dashboard was through a standalone page redirection, but many customers asked for an embeddable version within their own dashboards. After testing with beta testers, the company has now released this feature for everyone, allowing customization of the UI to match the owner's style. To embed the UI in another dashboard, users can make a call to the dashboard-access endpoint and use the returned URL as the src of an iframe. The UI also allows customization of color palette and logo, which can be done through the Organization Settings on the Svix Dashboard. Future plans include adding more customizations options, improvements to the UI itself, and offering React, Vue, and Vanilla JS components for complete control over rendering.

We are very happy to announce the new Svix Slack community! This new community will help us better serve our customers, and will also be a place for talking about Svix in particular and webhooks in general. We have an #urgent-support channel for urgent support queries, a way for us to get feedback, a space to discuss Svix and its use cases, and a platform to share ideas and thoughts around webhooks. This community is intended to provide faster support, gather feedback, facilitate discussions, and promote the exchange of knowledge about webhooks.

This is a quick update from @TomHacohen about improvements made to their authentication system, including new user instructions and password reset requirements for existing users. The changes aim to make authentication easier and more secure by introducing Single Sign-On (SSO) and social login options, as well as features to manage multiple users and environments under the same account. These updates are part of a larger effort to tackle the company's authentication wish list.