Category Archives: Scalability
The Future of Cloud Computing
As you continue to plow through the finishing touches of an e-mail that is stream-of-consciousness disguised as a project plan, you glance at the clock and see that it is 12:57 when you click Send. You promised to deploy the e-mail by 1:00. Crisis averted…but only momentarily. Something has gone terribly wrong. Your screen goes blank and as you click your e-mail icon, “Server Unresponsive” appears on your screen. Really, in this day and age? Yes…really, but not if you were e-mailing via the cloud. Cloud computing is the wave of the future—so says the many bloggers, journalists, analysts… and…
READ MORE »How to Move 71 Billion Emails
A guest post by SendGrid’s VP of Operations Jon Prall In October, SendGrid sent over 6 billion emails on behalf of over 60,000 different customers. It should come as no surprise that moving that much mail requires an extremely robust and reliable infrastructure. My role at SendGrid is to ensure that our email infrastructure can keep up with the rapidly growing volume of email our customers need to send while making sure we are leveraging new technology and creating new solutions in order to continue to improve our performance, reliability, and security. Our infrastructure is hosted with 5 different cloud…
READ MORE »Learning to Scale an Email-based App: Building for Today with an Eye on Tomorrow
The following post is a guest post by Mike Sun, the Senior Engineer at the team management tool iDoneThis. Learn more about Mike at the bottom of the post. iDoneThis is a simple management application that emails your team at the end of every day to ask, “What’d you get done today?” Just reply with a few lines of what you got done. The following morning everyone on your team gets a digest with what the team accomplished the previous day to keep everyone in the loop and kickstart another awesome day. From our launch in January of 2011, we’ve…
READ MORE »The Benefits of Sending Email in the Cloud
Sending email using a cloud based SMTP server has numerous benefits for growing businesses, saving you time and streamlining your costs. Many of our customers started with custom systems, but as usage increased found that their current email infrastructure didn’t have long term appeal to the bottom line. As a result, they searched for more cost effective ways to manage their email and found outsourcing to be their solution of choice. In fact, outsourcing email is a growing trend among IT professionals that are charged with building a productive product line while managing costs. Related PostsWebinar: Q&A with Ken and…
READ MORE »How to Calculate the Cost of Maintaining Your Email Infrastructure
Today there are more options available to companies that need to simplify the way they send email. Many companies start out building their own servers and managing email in house, but find that this decision has serious implications as the company grows and expands its reach. Related PostsIntroducing the SendGrid Guide to Email Infrastructure Back to Basics. If You Can’t Send an Email, What Can You Do? [Webinar] Your Toughest Email Infrastructure Questions Answered Whitelists: The Perfect is the Enemy of the Good SendGrid Joins Forces With Engine Yard
READ MORE »NYT’s Study Showcases the Importance of Email Infrastructure
Exactly how and why do we share online content? That is what the New York Times and Latitude Research set out to discover in their 2011 study, “The Psychology of Sharing.” Surprisingly, during their survey of 2,500 self-described “medium-to-heavy content sharers” they found that good, old fashion email continues to be the number one sharing tool. Yes, the younger you are the more likely you are to utilize Twitter, Facebook, Google+ or something similar as a communications tool, but email for the most part remains the most popular way users choose to share news.
READ MORE »Built BY Developers FOR Developers
As we finish up our top ten reasons you need SendGrid in 2012, our last two reasons focus on our belief that everything we do is about our customers. There is no other system that can do what we do while providing long term value that is focused on your personal success. We really do care about our clients and keeping you happy. Reason #9: At your service 24 hours a day, seven days per week. Delivery failures are not restricted to Monday through Friday between 9 and 5. When a problem occurs, you need help right away. That’s…
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