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

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It can be deceptively easy to set up your own, SMTP server, to send email on behalf of that app. They've talked about this in their book, Do More Faster, where they talk about a variety of web services, including Sendgrid. However, every web application needs and email component. The problem is when the things go wrong.

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The Case For & Against Cryptocurrencies (for those tired of all the noise)

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The Internet and World Wide Web themselves emerged from open protocols (HTTP, HTML, SMTP, etc) that allowed businesses, individuals and governments to put information online that was accessible to the masses and then to build applications on top of this infrastructure to the benefit of the masses.

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