Programming For Marketers: How To Install Python Adrian Palacios June 30, 2017 Email Marketing, Technical If you are a marketer interested in learning basic programming, this post explains how to install Python on your computer and run a test command. Read More ›
Double Your Velocity Without Growing Your Team With RICE Matt Bernier June 28, 2017 Community, Technical Read how SendGrid uses the RICE prioritization method for open source projects and how you can start to implement RICE on your own team. Read More ›
Benefits of Python for Marketers Adrian Palacios June 14, 2017 Email Marketing, Technical Learn how to start using Python, a computer programming language that can help marketers save time, increase their skill set, and become more valuable team members. Read More ›
Using Kafka as a Data Pipeline to Increase Availability Brad Culberson May 31, 2017 Technical Read how we accommodate large volumes of email and the load generated by large insertions or updates of recipient lists using Kafka as a data pipeline. Read More ›
What Are Web APIs Used For? Brandon West April 25, 2017 Technical A web API allows two programs to speak to each other by standardizing the language and making it easy for you to get what you need from a program. Read More ›
Scaling Product Management at SendGrid: Building a Developer Experience Team Scott Williamson April 12, 2017 Company, Product, Technical To focus more on developer experience (DX), we created a team that wakes up every day thinking about how to improve the SendGrid experience for developers. Read More ›
Yanking the Andon Cord Brad Culberson April 10, 2017 Technical When a teammate discovers a potential issue that may affect customers or team efficiency we raise that awareness immediately. We pull the Andon Cord. Read More ›
Blueprints at SendGrid Sean Kilgore March 21, 2017 Best Practices, Technical Product and Engineering teams at SendGrid use Blueprints to minimize drift in our projects and to ensure that we’re delivering what customers want. Read More ›
DBAs, A Priesthood No More Silvia Botros March 6, 2017 Technical Read about the modern Data Base Administrator (DBA) and how the role can fit in with the operations team of any organization. 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 ›
Scaling Riak and Solr for Marketing Campaigns Brad Culberson February 16, 2017 Technical When you get deep into the details, sometimes you miss the easiest solution–one you already know and are capable of because you have already done it once. Last year, we were battling some major scaling issues in Riak search which is based on Solr. Find out how we solved this problem. Read More ›
SendGrid 💖s Developers Lindsey Weinig February 14, 2017 Product, Technical Over the last few months we worked closely with our community to develop, and now release, new interactive v3 API documentation, a streamlined set-up flow to expedite integration, and a new C# library supporting .NET Standard 1.3. Read More ›