Prototypal Pragmatism – Designing Patterns for Progress with William Shepherd

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SendGrid

William: Right. And when you think about it, sure, you can integrate with Twilio, and SendGrid, or Mailgun, or any of these other tools. But then you have multiple things that you have to integrate with, which increases complexity, which increases surface area to bugs, and just all kinds of issues, so we handle all of that. But we add some marketing stuff on there as well for marketers to use without having to have teams do custom code in order to deliver the functionality.

#Email Delivery #Transactional Email #Email Marketing 106 social mentions

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OneSignal

To bring it back a little bit to your employer, OneSignal is exactly that kind of solution. Like, sure, you could go and implement all of these things yourself where you have your SMS and your email provider, and then you have your MarTech piece where you're doing analysis of your audience and making sure the right people hear the right things at the right time. Fitting all of those under one umbrella has tremendous value. That same pattern can be applied to our software architecture, I think.

#Mobile Push Messaging #Web Push Notifications #Push Notifications 25 social mentions

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Kubernetes

Like, I'm building a drink dispensing robot that runs Kubernetes on the robot. There's no reason to do that. I'm just jamming in technology to make it as complicated as possible because it's interesting to me, and it drives my learning. But when it comes to actually shipping a product for a company, you want to take exactly the opposite approach. Fortunately, waffle bot is unlikely to be a company ever.

#Developer Tools #DevOps Tools #Containers As A Service 280 social mentions