From the team.
Product updates, platform engineering notes, and the occasional deep dive.
Wide events, and why we use them
A deploy fails, and a few minutes later the chat message lands: "deploy's broken, just says 'Something went wrong', screenshot attached." The screenshot is a red banner that says, correctly, that something went wrong. We have a screenshot, a rough timestamp, and zero information about what. <SupportPing /Under our old setup, answering the question meant opening two tabs and reading a lot. The first tab was Vercel's log viewer, where we could filter to a window around the user's timestamp and scroll for the route hit. The user ID was on one line, the org on another, the environment ID...
Containing the blast radius
Automated scanners hit every IP on the internet in minutes. The question isn't whether you get scanned, it's how much damage a breach can do. Origin discovery is typically the first step in any reconnaissance workflow. GreyNoise's 2025 Mass Internet Exploitation Report found that attackers scan the entire internet because it's quick and cheap to do, then immediately go after whatever's exposed. Tools like masscan can hit every IP address on the internet for a specific open port at ten million packets per second. That's the entire IPv4 address space covered in under six minutes from a single machine. Once...
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