Ep2026 sponsor manychat update (#1562)

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Co-authored-by: Kshitijaa Jaglan <29124655+deutranium@users.noreply.github.com>

Author: 3 people

src/components/SocialLinks.astro

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ const {
 } = Astro.props;
 const socialMap = {
   website: { icon: "globe", label: "Website", color: "#0077b5" },
-  blog: { icon: "rss", label: "Blog", color: "" },
+  blog: { icon: "rss", label: "Blog", color: "#f26522", style: "solid" },
   linkedin: { icon: "linkedin", label: "LinkedIn", color: "#0a66c2" },
   github: { icon: "github", label: "GitHub", color: "#333333" },
   youtube: { icon: "youtube", label: "YouTube", color: "#ff0000" },
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ const socialMap = {
   {
     Object.entries(socialMap)
       .filter(([key]) => socials?.[key])
-      .map(([key, { icon, label, color }]) => {
+      .map(([key, { icon, label, color, style: iconStyle = "brands" }]) => {
         const url = socials[key];
         const style = variant === "color" && color ? `color: ${color}` : {variant};
         return (
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ const socialMap = {
             {" "}
             <span class="social-icon-inner">
               {" "}
-              <Icon name={icon} style="brands" size="fa-xl" />{" "}
+              <Icon name={icon} style={iconStyle} size="fa-xl" />{" "}
             </span>{" "}
           </a>
         );

src/components/SponsorLogo.astro

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ const {
 
 const logo = sponsorLogos[sponsor.id];
 const slug = tier==="Partners"? `/community-partners#sponsor-${sponsorId}`
-/*: tier==="Platinum" ? `/sponsor/${sponsorId}` */
+: tier==="Platinum" ? `/sponsor/${sponsorId}`
 : tier==="Media Partners" ? `/media-partners#sponsor-${sponsorId}` : tier==="Startups" ? `/startups#sponsor-${sponsorId}` : `/sponsors#sponsor-${sponsorId}`
 
 ---

src/content/config.ts

@@ -225,6 +225,7 @@ const sponsors = defineCollection({
     socials: z
       .object({
         linkedin: z.string().url().optional().nullable(),
+        blog: z.string().url().optional().nullable(),
         github: z.string().url().optional().nullable(),
         mastodon: z.string().url().optional().nullable(),
         bluesky: z.string().url().optional().nullable(),

src/content/sponsors/manychat/display.png

@@ -3,11 +3,12 @@ name: "Manychat"
 url: "https://careers.manychat.com/"
 industry: "Technology & Marketing"
 description:
-  "We help businesses grow by building meaningful customer relationships,
-  powered by a leading chat marketing platform."
+  "We build AI-powered chat automation for 1M+ creators and brands at real
+  production scale."
 socials:
   linkedin: "https://www.linkedin.com/company/manychat"
   twitter: "https://x.com/Manychat_life"
+  blog: "https://medium.com/manychat-engineering"
   github:
   discord:
   youtube: "https://www.youtube.com/@manychat-engineering/"
@@ -18,28 +19,47 @@ logo_padding: 20px 10px
 
 # About Manychat
 
-Manychat is a leading Chat Marketing platform. We enable businesses and creators
-to drive more sales and conversions on messaging apps, such as Instagram,
-WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and Telegram, using automation.
+**We’re [Manychat](https://manychat.com/)! 👋🏻 Chat automation for 1M+ businesses
+at massive scale, with Python infrastructure that actually handles it without
+headaches.**
 
-Trusted by over 1 million brands in 170+ countries, we're an official Meta
-Business Partner, backed by top investors, including Bessemer Venture Partners.
+Bet you know this feeling all too well: deploying an LLM feature and HOPING for
+the best in production 🤞🏻
 
-Our global team of 350+ people is located around international offices in
-Austin, Barcelona, Yerevan, São Paulo, and Amsterdam. 🌏
+The costs, rate limits, provider outages taking down your entire feature… it
+used to haunt us, but we developed the systems that can handle it all.
 
-Founded in 2016, we still embrace a startup work culture — making fast
-decisions, setting ambitions goals, fostering open feedback and transparency. We
-think big and win together. 🏆
+We power chat automation for over a million creators and brands, so "the LLM is
+down" isn't an acceptable answer, ever. We built infrastructure that expects
+LLMs to misbehave:
 
-We value our team, offering competitive compensation and benefits, and a hybrid
-work model to split time between home and cozy offices.
+- Multi-provider routing that fails over from Azure to OpenAI mid-retry.
+- Weighted traffic distribution that we can rebalance without deploying code.
+- Cooldowns that pull failing backends out of rotation automatically.
+- Observability that actually helps — Prometheus metrics, Grafana dashboards,
+  OpenTelemetry traces with business context so we know which customer's request
+  just broke.
 
-We care intensely about our customers and their goals. By experimenting a lot
-and testing hypotheses, we continuously improve our product to help businesses
-grow and generate revenue on their social channels. That’s how we deliver
-results and dazzle our customers. ⚡️
+We also monitor our asyncio event loop like hawks, because nothing ruins your
+day faster than discovering a blocking call is starving your entire service.
 
-🚀 Ready to make an impact in a new and fast-evolving market? Explore our job
-openings here on LinkedIn, or by visiting our careers page:
-https://careers.manychat.com/
+**And we'd love to discuss this and all things Python with like-minded people!**
+Come by our booth to talk to the engineers who built this infrastructure. We can
+tell you how we handle rate-limit cascades. How we track token costs per AI
+agent. What it's like to debug distributed traces when you're trying to figure
+out why one specific request took 6 seconds instead of 2. And anything else
+you'd like to know about working in such a high-load environment.
+
+Come see us on stage:
+
+- Daria Korsakova, Python Engineer at Manychat will talk about Practical
+  observability for Python APIs, workers & jobs
+- Sergi Porta, Python Team Lead at Manychat will talk about LLM Traffic Spikes:
+  Routing, Rate Limits, and Failover in Python
+
+Read the full technical breakdown of our infrastructure:
+https://medium.com/manychat-engineering/how-to-survive-llm-traffic-spikes-in-python-73955ee9426f
+
+Meet our engineering team: https://careers.manychat.com/team/engineering
+
+Explore open roles: https://careers.manychat.com/positions

src/content/sponsors/manychat/index.md

@@ -87,9 +87,7 @@ const hideFooter = Astro.props.hideFooter ?? false;
   }
 
   article a[href^="http"]:not([href*="var(--externalDomain)"]):not(.button-link):not(:has(img)) {
-    display: inline-block;
-    white-space: nowrap;
-    overflow-wrap: break-word;
+    overflow-wrap: anywhere;
     word-break: break-word;
   }
 </style>