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Process SendGrid Events in Real-time with TempoDB

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If you’re a SendGrid customer you will no doubt have taken a look around your statistics dashboard a few times. It’s great isn’t it? Being able to get such a granular view of what’s happening with the email you send through us. I’m fascinated by statistics and analytics so when I stumbled upon Techstars Cloud graduate company TempoDB recently I had to check them out. What is TempoDB? TempoDB is a database designed specifically for storing time series data. This data could be anything really but it’s better used for little pieces of information like thermostat temperatures, network latency or

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10 Questions You Should Ask Every Cloud-Based Email Delivery Provider—even SendGrid!

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As you compare solutions for your email infrastructure and delivery needs, there are ten questions you should ask every cloud-based email delivery provider so that you have all of the information you need to the make the right choice. What is their expertise in email deliverability? Find out if they have a dedicated team that specializes in email delivery and what services they provide. For example, authentication, dedicated IPs, feedback loops, ISP monitoring and outreach can be critical when delivery challenges occur. What type of access do you have to their deliverability experts? Deliverability failures can happen any time of day or

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SendGrid Now Featured on Pantheon’s Drupal Platform

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Coinciding with DrupalCon in Portland, Oregon, this week, SendGrid is excited to announce a partnership with Pantheon to provide developers building websites on Pantheon’s breakthrough Drupal platform the ability to access SendGrid as an integrated offering for scalable, reliable delivery of transactional email. Pantheon’s all-in-one Drupal platform cuts the ties that bind developers to physical servers and provides everything they need to build, launch, and run solid websites. Based on a modern Web scale infrastructure, Pantheon’s solutions deliver on the promise of “smooth scaling in software,” with no architectural changes, eliminating the hidden risks and costs of traditional hosting models.

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TechStars Military Veteran Boot Camp Applications Due May 31

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Startup accelerator TechStars wants to encourage military veterans to start businesses. Veterans are traditionally under-represented amongst startup founders. TechStars aims to change that with its three day boot camp aimed at veterans and spouses of veterans. The application deadline is May 31. Over 75 veterans participated in the previous iteration of the boot camp last year. TechStars mentors, alumni and technology leaders will help participants hone their business idea, investment pitch and accelerator applications. The curriculum includes presentations from experts and one-on-one mentoring that culminates in each attendee giving a short presentation about their startup. Patriot Boot Camp will take

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SendGrid Delivered Wraps Up Spring Tour in Boston With an All-Star Speaker Line-Up

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The final stop on our spring SendGrid Delivered tour was the vibrant, beautiful city of Boston. It was an exciting opportunity for us to connect with the city’s growing entrepreneurial community and with all the American business institutions that call Boston home. We hosted the event at the State Room, so outstanding views of the city and harbor served as our backdrop for the day. We had a full day of engaging sessions, real-time demos, and great conversations with our attendees and were also very lucky to have an all-star line-up of presenters from HubSpot, Keen IO, and SendGrid Labs.

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The GridIron Mashup (SendGrid + Iron.io = love, flowers, ice-cream, and profits)

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Mashups tend to showcase interesting use cases of APIs in which the sum is greater than the parts. They offer increased productivity at reduced costs. Work flows that once required additional resources now become superfluous. By leveraging multiple SaaS solutions in a single application, we get all this plus the technology benefits of two focused providers. What better company to showcase such a mashup than Iron.io? Their message queue and worker APIs allow 3rd parties to create asynchronous and scalable architectures. Also, just like SendGrid they have webhooks that allow for an event driven workflow. Introducing GridIron SendGrid and Iron.io

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SendGrid Delivered Goes International

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After presenting in 6 cities across the US (NYC, San Francisco, Denver, Austin, Seattle, and Boston) we are thrilled to be taking our SendGrid Delivered tour across the pond in June. Our travels will bring us to London (June 4) Berlin (June 7) and Paris (June 11). So why should you join us on this leg of the tour? Here are the Top 10 Reasons you should become an Inbox Insider and join us at SendGrid Delivered in Europe next month. Top 10 Reasons to Attend SendGrid Delivered International 1. Get the inside scoop on all things email from top

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