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Thoughts on automation
Engineering deep-dives, product updates, and lessons from building ZapRail.
EngineeringMay 15, 2026·8 min read
How ZapRail's AI builder turns plain English into production workflows
A look at the prompt decomposition, connector selection, and field-mapping pipeline that powers ZapRail's one-shot workflow generation.
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InfrastructureMay 8, 2026·6 min read
Never lose a webhook: exponential backoff and DLQ architecture
How we built a Redis sorted-set retry queue with 5-attempt exponential backoff — and what we learned about delivery guarantees in distributed systems.
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ProductApril 29, 2026·5 min read
Designing a field mapper that engineers and ops teams both love
The UX decisions behind ZapRail's visual mapper — from JSONPath autocomplete to AI Auto-Map that infers intent from field names.
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