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Build a 10M Events/Day Webhook System: Beyond Simple POST Requests

Scaling webhooks requires robust queues, retries, and observability, not just a basic POST request.

2 Sept 2026

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DevelopersSep 2

Goose and MCP Bring Local AI Agents to Your Terminal

Block's open-source Goose agent uses Model Context Protocol (MCP) to give AI access to your local files and tools.

●Builder Action:Developers can now integrate AI directly into their terminal workflows. Goose, using MCP, allows AI agents to discover and interact with local files, databases (like SQLite, Postgres), and system tools without custom scripts. This enables AI-assisted coding, automated testing, and dynamic code generation directly within your development environment.

DevelopersSep 2

OG Tags Break on Twitter: Client-Side Rendering Fools Crawlers

Your site's meta tags might be fine in the browser, but crawlers see a different, often empty, document.

●Builder Action:If your application renders OG tags client-side, social sharing previews will break. You must implement Server-Side Rendering (SSR) or pre-rendering to ensure these tags are present in the initial HTML response that crawlers fetch. Test using Twitter Card Validator and Facebook Sharing Debugger.

DevelopersSep 2

Serverless Engineers Master Container Concepts Autodidactically

Shipping on AWS Lambda instills core principles like immutability and configuration management that directly translate to containerization.

●Builder Action:Developers familiar with serverless will find many concepts like immutable deployments, environment variable configuration, and statelessness directly applicable to containers. Expect to adapt your networking understanding, moving from implicit service discovery to explicit configuration of container-to-container communication and external access.