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Why we chose token-based pricing over per-call pricing

Designing a fair pricing model for APIs that range from 1ms text operations to 400ms real-time data lookups requires rethinking what 'one API call' actually means.

Seth March 28, 2026 6 min read

Engineering

Building a consistent API across 18 categories

The Stripe-influenced conventions that make every Microwave endpoint feel the same regardless of what it does.

Seth March 20, 2026

8 min read

Product

MCP-native from day one

Why we made Model Context Protocol a first-class transport instead of an afterthought — and what that means for AI agent developers.

Seth March 15, 2026

5 min read

Engineering

The deceptively hard problems: timezone math edition

A deep dive into the edge cases that make timezone conversion genuinely difficult — and how we handle all of them.

Seth March 8, 2026

12 min read