2025
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Ninja v3 Is Live — Where We Are and What Comes Next
This past weekend marked an important milestone for AL Object ID Ninja. Backend version 3 is now live , running in production on: brand-new endpoints, the latest supported Node runtime, and fully covered by more than 1,300 automated tests . So far, it’s been running smoothly and reliably , exactly as intended.
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Important announcement for teams maintaining private AL Object ID Ninja backend – get ready for “v3”
This post is for teams running AL Object ID Ninja on their own backend . If you are using the hosted Ninja backend, you don’t need to do anything — the transition will be handled for you invisibly. What’s New I’ve published a new v3 version of the Ninja backend to the repository: 👉…
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AL Object ID Ninja v3.0 Platform Launching on December 15
When I opened the early-bird sign-up page for AL Object ID Ninja, my goal was simple: to understand whether there was enough real interest in a fully supported, commercial-grade Ninja platform for me to commit myself to building it the way it deserves to be built. That question didn’t stay unanswered for long.
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A Story About Trust: Why LS Retail Moved from Private Endpoints to the Hosted Ninja Backend
Every now and then a real story captures the essence of what a product is meant to do. This one did that for me. A few days ago, LS Retail, a long-time Ninja user, reached out and asked a simple question: “Can you help us move from our private endpoints to your hosted backend?” At first, this surprised me.
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AL Object ID Ninja: Self-Hosting vs. Hassle-Free (the data tells a curious story)
Fun fact from the past three months of AL Object ID Ninja: Ninja has handed out object IDs to 9,365 apps . Out of those, 297 apps were configured to use private endpoints. But here’s the interesting part: Only 122 apps were consistently configured correctly for all team members — meaning every team…
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AL Object ID Ninja: Please Register Your Intent
Over the past four years, AL Object ID Ninja has quietly kept thousands of teams out of conflict trouble. To plan the next chapter responsibly, I need a simple signal from you. What I’m asking If you intend to keep using the hosted Ninja backend after 1 January 2026 , please register your interest here: 👉 alid.ninja This is not a subscription.
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End of free backend for AL Object ID Ninja
EDIT: Click here to let me know if you intend to stay with Ninja premium backend and lock in your lifetime 35% discount. I hoped I would never have to write this post. When I first released AL Object ID Ninja back in September 2021 , my dream was simple — to give every Business Central developer a painless way to manage object IDs, forever free.