Engineering9 min read
Rate Limiting at Scale: Lessons from 10B API Calls
How we redesigned our rate-limiting layer to handle burst traffic without sacrificing fairness — and what we learned along the way.
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Sam ChenScaleAPIs Blog
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ProductApr 1, 2026 · 6 min read
Introducing ProdaDoc v2: Smarter Document Intelligence
ProdaDoc v2 brings multi-page reasoning, table extraction, and a 3× speed improvement to our document processing API. Here's what changed and how to migrate.
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Alex Rivera
Head of Product
Mar 24, 2026
Tutorial5 min read
Background Removal in 3 Lines of Code with ProdaPic
A step-by-step guide to integrating ProdaPic's background removal endpoint into your Next.js app — from API key to production in under 10 minutes.
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Priya NairSecurity7 min read
GDPR Compliance for API-First Products
A practical checklist for developers building on ScaleAPIs who need to meet GDPR data residency and processing requirements.
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Jordan LeeEngineering8 min read
Building Reliable Webhooks: Retries, Signatures & Idempotency
Webhooks are deceptively tricky. We cover the patterns we use internally to guarantee at-least-once delivery with zero duplicate side effects.
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Sam ChenProduct4 min read
Our API Versioning Strategy: Why We Chose Date-Based Versions
Semantic versioning works great for libraries. For REST APIs, we found date-based versioning gives consumers clearer migration windows.
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