Engineering

Tips, feedback and experiments led by the engineering team at Crisp.

Developing Custom Chatbots for Crisp
Engineering

Developing Custom Chatbots for Crisp

As the chatbot trend continues, we receive a lot of questions from customers willing to connect very specific automated response systems to Crisp [https://crisp.chat/en/]. For instance, certain users want to connect Recast.AI [https://recast.ai] to Crisp, or even load custom responses from an internal knowledge base that's not hosted on Crisp. Crisp provides a chatbot software [https://crisp.chat/en/chatbot/] as part of the Crisp Unlimited plan. The Crisp Bot builder does the job for most autom

Open-Sourcing Bloom: A REST API Caching Middleware
Project

Open-Sourcing Bloom: A REST API Caching Middleware

This article is a word-for-word repost of Announcing Bloom: A REST API Caching Middleware [https://journal.valeriansaliou.name/announcing-bloom-a-rest-api-caching-middleware/] from the blog of Valerian Saliou [https://valeriansaliou.name], Crisp CTO. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Premature optimization is the root of all evil. Especially when you launch a new SaaS business you're not sure will succeed and get the traction you would expect of

How We Internationalized The Crisp Chatbox At Scale
Chatbox

How We Internationalized The Crisp Chatbox At Scale

Here at Crisp, we love technology. Especially when it is bleeding edge and may help improve the quality and speed of the service. Want to know more about Crisp Chat widget [https://crisp.chat/en/livechat/]? Make sure to go to https://crisp.chat/en/livechat/ Recently, we made a small optimization to the chatbox code using a recent CSS feature [http://www.w3.org/TR/css-fonts-3/#unicode-range-desc], which had a tremendous impact at scale: it reduced the total size of the chatbox on the network by

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