Engineering notes
How BuildAPI works underneath, what we got wrong, and what we changed. Written by the people who broke it.
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Bound, verified, enforced: three states people read as one
A key's relationship to a domain has three separate properties, and conflating them causes most of the confusion we see.
Product
Card or crypto: what changes
Both get you the same plan. They differ in renewal, refunds, and what happens when something goes wrong.
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Why keys expire every thirty days
Not to annoy you. A key with no expiry is a key you can never really lose.
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Why your call allowance is pooled, not per key
Adding keys does not add allowance. That is deliberate, and here is the reasoning.