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

socalTECH

Editor's note: we're crossposting a version of this interview between our Rocky Mountain site, techrockies.com, and our Southern California site, socalTECH.com). It can be deceptively easy to set up your own, SMTP server, to send email on behalf of that app. What is Sendgrid? The problem is when the things go wrong.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

He sees this as similar to what happened with SMTP, POP, HTTP, etc. Stamps.com - two back-ends - mainline service vs. marketing site. From BBM's web site: media RSS - extensions to RSS subscription format to support time based media, enclosures, copyrights and other meta-data needed for media. Server and client in Java.

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

Both Sides of the Table

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. + Our view then (kind of obvious now) was that software would be consumed the way that consumer Internet sites were back then.

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