Celebrating Sending 1 Trillion Emails Tim Jenkins March 27, 2017 Company SendGrid CTO and Co-founder, Tim Jenkins, reflects on SendGrid sending 1 trillion emails. Read More ›
How to Celebrate Paid Off Tech Debt Tim Jenkins March 1, 2017 Company, Technical Tech debt seems to be pretty popular topic. In my experience, there are two types of startups: those who are successful and have tech debt, and those who are not successful. The good news is that if a company is successful, there is the chance to get rid of the old tech debt, and in many of those cases it is a great cause for celebration among the engineers who have had to deal with it. Read More ›
Founding Families: A Founder’s Perspective on SendGrid’s Parental Leave Tim Jenkins August 29, 2016 Company SendGrid Co-founder, Tim Jenkins, shares his personal experience with SendGrid's new parental leave policy and explains how it differed from his first parental leave. Read More ›
Where is IPv6 in Email? Tim Jenkins May 20, 2016 Community, Technical The natural question from people who worry about the scarcity of IPv4 addresses is what about IPv6? SendGrid's Co-founder and CTO, Tim Jenkins, weighs in with his experience and thoughts on the issue. Read More ›
Boats and Clouds: Choosing the Right Engine for Your Email Program Tim Jenkins April 12, 2016 Product Around 14 years ago, I got to experience one of the happiest days of a boat owner’s life; the day I bought it. In some respects it wasn’t exactly a happy day, since it broke down on its test run and we found out that the radio was busted. Since then, I’ve had to do […]
Confirming Why SendGrid Built Its Own MTA Tim Jenkins February 6, 2015 Company A number of people, both inside SendGrid and out, have asked me about our decision to build our own message transfer agent (MTA) versus using one of the commercial products that exist in the market. In light of recent market news concerning the merger of two commercial MTA vendors, I thought it would be a […]
SendGrid’s Experience Converting Relay Service to Go Tim Jenkins January 21, 2015 Community, Company, Technical Last year I talked about SendGrid’s decision to use Go as our primary development language. For the most part this has affected only new services. Recently though, we have completed a rewrite of one of our highest load components to Go and I thought I would share the story and some of the lessons learned. […]
The Myth of Opportunistic TLS and Email Privacy Tim Jenkins September 22, 2014 Product Back in June, SendGrid joined a large group of Internet companies in the effort to prevent dragnet surveillance of customer traffic. On our part this specifically involved adding opportunistic TLS—encrypting traffic to any mail server that supports it. While this does move us closer to the goal of complete customer privacy, there are some caveats […]
Looking Up: 5 Years of Scaling Our Technology and Our People Tim Jenkins July 25, 2014 Company Recently, SendGrid celebrated five years since we formed the company. Five years and over 270 billion emails later, I want to share some of my thoughts on some key lessons I’ve learned along the way. Design For Failure One of the biggest mistakes we made in the initial creation of SendGrid was focusing on getting […]
How to Convince Your Company to Go With Golang Tim Jenkins March 6, 2014 Technical Recently, SendGrid decided to move to using Go as its primary development language. This has been a long-standing internal battle, which I hear has happened and is continuing to happen in a number of organizations. I figured it would be productive to share our experience here, not just in why we chose to move forward […]
SendGrid’s Parse API: Parsing Incoming Email is Now Faster and Easier Tim Jenkins May 9, 2013 Product, Technical What is SendGrid’s Parse API? Email from friends is interactive. It’s a conversation and that’s not always the case for commercial emails. Our customers are adding more back-and-forth to their campaigns with our Parse API, whose growth in the last year has nearly tripled. The Parse API lets your app accept incoming email, including attachments, […]
Which protocol should I use to send email, SMTP or REST? Tim Jenkins June 21, 2010 Best Practices, Product, Technical We get asked quite often why we recommend customers use SMTP to send email to SendGrid, as opposed to using our REST API, and where one would be used over the other. For options on how to integrate with SendGrid go here. To start, the absolute best method to send email through SendGrid is to […]