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An app store is a distribution surface, a versioned contract, and a health loop between a platform and its developers. Here is how those parts fit together and why each one fails loudly if ignored.
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Intercom announced a new set of APIs designed to enable developers to integrate and automate interactions with its platform. The APIs include Conversations, Counts, Companies, Users, and Events; the Conversations API allows sending email and in-app manual messages to users, enabling innovative use of Intercom’s in-app messaging directly from a product. The Counts API provides summary counts of users, companies, and conversations, including open and closed conversations per admin, for monitoring and graphing. The Companies and Users APIs add the ability to manage custom attributes, filter by tags and segments, and for companies, create and update information and manage user memberships. The Events API tracks user actions in a product to trigger contextually relevant messages, and customers using event-triggered Auto Messages saw engagement rates increase by over 200%.
Intercom announced eight new features aimed at helping sales, support, and marketing teams manage volume and capacity more efficiently to increase conversions and grow their business. Custom Bots can qualify leads automatically, book meetings, and work 24/7 without code, connecting to the tech stack and accelerating sales cycles by delivering qualified leads when prospects are live. The new Intercom App Store offers over 100 apps for acquiring, engaging, and retaining customers, including Zoom Webinars, Content Showcase, Coda, and PieSync, along with a new Messenger framework and Developer Hub for building custom apps. Updated webhooks and APIs provide more flexibility to trigger actions based on conversation tags, check teammate availability with the Admins API, and run assignment rules at any point in a conversation. Other additions include downloadable conversation transcripts for both teammates and customers, and free developer workspaces for safe building and testing.
Intercom has partnered with WhatsApp to offer an integration that lets businesses manage customer support conversations directly from the Intercom Inbox, reaching WhatsApp’s 2.5 billion users across over 100 countries. The integration simplifies omnichannel support by bringing WhatsApp messages into the same tool where teams already handle other channels, eliminating the need for separate software or new processes. Customers can initiate a conversation through the Intercom Messenger and then seamlessly switch to WhatsApp by scanning a QR code, making it easier to receive support on their preferred platform. Support teams continue using their existing workflows because core inbox tools such as rules, SLAs, and macros work with WhatsApp conversations, and messages appear directly in their usual inbox. Additionally, reporting features allow businesses to compare WhatsApp’s conversation volume, response times, and customer satisfaction against other channels to optimize their omnichannel strategy.
ClickHouse sponsored Postgres Summit US 2026 in New York City, where David Wheeler presented “Postgres in da ClickHouse” on integrating Postgres and ClickHouse for OLTP and OLAP workloads. He demoed four technologies: pg_stat_ch for query metrics, pg_clickhouse for querying ClickHouse from Postgres (pushing down 16 of 22 TPC-H queries and supporting nearly all Postgres data types), chdb_hook for efficient data lake file import/export via COPY (outperforming similar extensions), and WalShadow for sub-second physical replication. Other sessions covered pg_plan_advice in Postgres 19, index prefetching for Postgres 20, open source CDC plugins, and a graveyard of technologies that failed to “kill” SQL. Wheeler also attended talks on Postgres replication, African Postgres communities, and CloudNativePG extensions. The conference marked ClickHouse’s first Postgres conference sponsorship, with plans to sponsor PGConf.EU in Valencia.
MongoDB Atlas’s integration with DataDog now sends custom cluster-level labels as tags on DataDog metrics objects, allowing users to organize and categorize monitoring data in meaningful ways. Users define key-value labels in MongoDB at the cluster level using the Data API or configuration endpoints, and these labels automatically appear as tags in DataDog. These tags can filter metrics in the Metrics Explorer, group data for dashboards, and set alert priorities based on attributes such as environment, application, or region. For instance, tag-based monitors can trigger a P2 alert for production clusters exceeding query targeting thresholds while assigning lower priority to non-production clusters. This enhancement, available on Atlas M10 cluster tiers and higher, leverages existing MongoDB labeling infrastructure to improve observability and drive business-specific alerting and dashboarding logic.
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