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How Sendgrid Makes Sure Those App Emails Go Through, With Jim Franklin

socalTECH

Jim Franklin: Sendgrid is a cloud-based email service. We move transactional mail between web applications and end users. Jim Franklin: Web developers are good at building web applications. However, every web application needs and email component. All they had ever done was build web applications.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

Mentions - Marc Andreessen's - The three kinds of platforms you meet on the Internet A Level 1 platform's apps run elsewhere, and call into the platform via a web services API to draw on data and services -- this is how Flickr does it. He sees this as similar to what happened with SMTP, POP, HTTP, etc. By definition need redundancy.

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