Engineering
Engineering.
4 articles from the Swarm Labs hive.
ShipStation webhooks explained: order automations that do not miss events
ShipStation webhooks send a resource_url, not the full order. Here is how to fetch, dedupe and retry safely in n8n, plus automations UK ops teams actually run.
Moving the Colour Index from v2 to v3, without losing a record
The Colour Index, the global reference for dye and pigment data, has moved to v3: edge-first and API-first. We migrated 45,720 products, 11,771 colour fingerprints and ~11,800 users off an ageing monolith, repairing the data as it crossed, with no resets and no lost logins.
Reporting, rendered: how Scout and SwarmGen build our reports
Scout knows who visited your site and why; SwarmGen turns an HTML template into a pixel-perfect PDF. Pointed at each other, they produce our visitor-intelligence reports (branded, scheduled and client-ready) with each tool doing the one thing it's good at.
How We Built an SVG Logo Animation That Will Never Repeat in a Lifetime
SVG animations often rely on repeated timelines. When multiple elements share identical or harmonically related durations, they drift into synchronised loops. The result is visual repetition that becomes noticeable over time. However we built an SVG logo animation that will never repeat, well not in