Blog

Engineering insights, product updates, and stories from the Blue team.

Why We Built Cobalt

We open-sourced the deployment platform now running Blue.

A tour of the architecture, deploy flow, and tests behind our deployment platform.

Big Blue workspaces now open in the blink of an eye. Included with Pro.

Three engineers. No staging environment. 946 commits to production in 30 days. How we made shipping safe enough to do constantly.

A software company's business model shapes what it builds. Here's ours, rebuilt.

24TB of pirated content, 19,000 customers, and a V2 coming. Why we rewrote Blue's legal foundation.

We killed MeiliSearch and moved search entirely to the browser. It's faster, simpler, and free.

A three-tier backup system, automatic failover, and the split-brain problem — all managed by three engineers.

How a 3-person team migrated to dedicated servers.

Designing a high performance three-tier caching system for Blue.

90% of our customers weren't using Blue for projects. That changed everything.

Financial sustainability, SaaS economics, and advice for founders.

Discussing product, strategy, and the future of Blue with LoudEgg.

Why we built Blue, and what we're setting out to do.