September 2021 Summaries

We have released our new Kotlin libraries (including async), and to celebrate we are posting an up-to-date Kotlin guide on sending webhooks from Kotlin using the Svix webhooks service. Svix offers a REST API and a set of libraries for interacting with the service, allowing developers to send webhooks in under five minutes and take care of challenges such as reliability and security. The guide covers key concepts including messages, applications, and endpoints, as well as installation, authentication, application creation, sending messages, adding webhook endpoints, and helping users consume webhooks. With Svix, developers can focus on building their own services without the complexity of building a webhooks system from scratch.

This month saw significant improvements in almost every part of the Svix service, including performance, libraries, UI, security, and open-source Python-Ksuid library. Multi-factor authentication has been enabled on Svix accounts, automatic retries have been added to the libraries to handle transient network errors, and several improvements have been made to the Python-Ksuid library. The application portal has also undergone significant changes with improved UI and API functionality. Additionally, internal benchmarking and testing have led to faster performance, especially for larger customers, and a successful completion of the annual penetration test revealed no major issues. Future updates are already in the works, and users can provide feedback through the Svix Slack channel.