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···+_A [gravitational slingshot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_assist) makes use of the gravity and relative movements of celestial bodies to accelerate a spacecraft and change its trajectory._+Applications in [ATProtocol](https://atproto.com/) store data in users' own [PDS](https://atproto.com/guides/self-hosting) (Personal Data Server), which are distributed across thousands of independently-run servers all over the world. Trying to access this data poses challenges for client applications:+Large projects like [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/) control their performance and reliability by syncing all app-relevant data from PDSs into first-party databases. But for new apps, building out this additional data infrastructure adds significant effort and complexity up front.+**Slingshot is a fast, eager, production-grade cache of data in the [ATmosphere](https://atproto.com/)**, offering performance and reliability without custom infrastructure.+Slingshot is currently in a **v0, pre-release state**. There is one production instance and you can use it! Expect short downtimes for restarts as development progresses and lower cache hit-rates as the internal storage caches are adjusted and reset.+The core APIs will not change, since they are standard third-party `com.atproto` query APIs from ATProtocol.+Slingshot subscribes to the global [Firehose](https://atproto.com/specs/sync#firehose) of data updates. It keeps a short-term rolling indexed window of *all* data, and automatically promotes content likely to be requested to its longer-term main cache. _(automatic promotion is still a work in progress)_+When there is a cache miss, Slingshot can often still accelerate record fetching, since it keeps a large cache of resolved identities: it can usually request from the correct PDS without extra lookups.+The fireshose includes **update** and **delete** events, which Slingshot uses to ensure stale and deleted data is removed within a very short window. Additonally, identity and account-level events can trigger rapid cleanup of data for deactivated and deleted accounts. _(some of this is still a work in progress)_+The "AT" in ATProtocol [stands for _Authenticated Transfer_](https://atproto.com/guides/glossary#at-protocol): all data is cryptographically signed, which makes it possible to broadcast data through third parties and trust that it's real _without_ having to directly contact the originating server.+Two core standard query APIs are supported to balance convenience and trust. They both fetch [records](https://atproto.com/guides/glossary#record):+### [`com.atproto.repo.getRecord`](#tag/comatproto-queries/GET/xrpc/com.atproto.repo.getRecord)+### [`com.atproto.sync.getRecord`](#tag/comatproto-queries/GET/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getRecord)+- [`DAG-CBOR`](https://atproto.com/specs/data-model)-encoded response requires extra libraries to decode, but+- Slingshot also offers variants of the `getRecord` endpoints that accept a full `at-uri` as a parameter, to save clients from needing to parse and validate all parts of a record location.+- Bi-directionally verifying identity endpoints, so you can directly exchange atproto [`handle`](https://atproto.com/guides/glossary#handle)s for [`DID`](https://atproto.com/guides/glossary#did-decentralized-id)s without extra steps, plus a convenient [Mini-Doc](#tag/slingshot-specific-queries/GET/xrpc/com.bad-example.identity.resolveMiniDoc) verified identity summary.+[Microcosm](https://www.microcosm.blue/) is a collection of services and independent community-run infrastructure for ATProtocol.+Slingshot excels when combined with _shallow indexing_ services, which offer fast queries of global data relationships but with only references to the data records. Microcosm has a few!+- [🌌 Constellation](https://constellation.microcosm.blue/), a global backlink index (all social interactions in atproto are links!)+All microcosm projects are [open source](https://tangled.sh/@bad-example.com/microcosm-links). **You can help sustain Slingshot** and all of microcosm by becoming a [Github sponsor](https://github.com/sponsors/uniphil/) or a [Ko-fi supporter](https://ko-fi.com/bad_example)!
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·········/// See also the [canonical `com.atproto` XRPC documentation](https://docs.bsky.app/docs/api/com-atproto-repo-get-record)···/// Ergonomic complement to [`com.atproto.repo.getRecord`](https://docs.bsky.app/docs/api/com-atproto-repo-get-record)···/// Like [com.atproto.identity.resolveIdentity](https://docs.bsky.app/docs/api/com-atproto-identity-resolve-identity)···
······+/// more convenient [request parameters](#tag/slingshot-specific-queries/GET/xrpc/com.bad-example.repo.getUriRecord)+/// or [response formats](#tag/slingshot-specific-queries/GET/xrpc/com.bad-example.identity.resolveMiniDoc).···/// See also the [canonical `com.atproto` XRPC documentation](https://docs.bsky.app/docs/api/com-atproto-repo-get-record)···/// Ergonomic complement to [`com.atproto.repo.getRecord`](https://docs.bsky.app/docs/api/com-atproto-repo-get-record)···/// Like [com.atproto.identity.resolveIdentity](https://docs.bsky.app/docs/api/com-atproto-identity-resolve-identity)···