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

socalTECH

If you're an application developer, sending emails through your application can be a chore. Jim Franklin: Web developers are good at building web applications. It can be deceptively easy to set up your own, SMTP server, to send email on behalf of that app. It's not something a 26 year old developer usually wants to think about.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

A very interesting topic, especially for those of us involved in developing for start-ups. Level 1 & 2 Burden is still on the developers, you still have infrastructure. The promise is so great, but the reality is that if you aren't developing something that matches with the models they provide then it represents a challenge.

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