We’ve been rather quiet this year, but that doesn’t mean we haven’t been hard at work. Quite the contrary. We’ve been actively building, updating, refining, and more throughout the year. Since it’s easy for updates to slip by without much discussion, let’s review the more interesting of those, along with a few other highlights.

For those that have been with us for a while, one of the most evident updates was to our UIs. We unified the UIs across our apps, also taking the opportunity to freshen up the look. While we were at it, we modernized much of the Javascript underneath, eliminating a bunch of legacy code.

AuthRocket

In AuthRocket, the API docs examples are now generated from real API calls. To improve clarity, we normalize IDs and dates, hence why they don’t appear as random as they otherwise might. This helps ensure the API examples match real-world use. We already did this with DNScaster, so this extends that to AuthRocket.

Additionally, we improved performance of LoginRocket by optimizing delivery of logos and other assets.

DNScaster

DNScaster Host records can now be designated as primary or secondary. Under normal operation, only primary hosts are used to answer DNS querites–secondary hosts are skipped. However, when all primary hosts are monitored and go offline, or directly set to inactive, the secondary hosts automatically kick in.

HTTP Monitors can now be configured to treat 3xx responses as online or offline. Previously they were always treated as online.

The UI also received numerous refinements and the sync engine was improved, making updates faster and more predictable.

Lastly, we added some new cities to our global network.

Operations

Systems and operations was a key focus for the year. We streamlined our stack by reducing the number of distinct database engines in use and swapped our background queueing engine for a better fit for our workloads. We made significant investments in new tooling and automation and made numerous updates to our overall cloud footprint.

That’s a high-level summary of updates and changes. We’ve also been working on some new stuff. Not ready to share much yet, but we can say there’s more than one new product in the pipeline. We look forward to sharing more when things are ready.

Happy 2025!