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

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Jim Franklin: Sendgrid is a cloud-based email service. Explain why someone would use your service, rather than set up your own email servers? It can be deceptively easy to set up your own, SMTP server, to send email on behalf of that app. For $79, you get 100,000 emails, and you're able to control your own IP address.

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The Web is Against the Ropes, But it’s Not Dead

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The start of the argument is that you need to separate using the Internet into “infrastructure & cloud services&# (basically the protocols of the Internet such as HTTP, TCP/IP, SMTP, etc. + I discussed these issues in the video. The Internet existed long before the World Wide Web and web browsers were created.

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