Message queuing is an interesting tool that can help us create scalable websites or web services. A message queue allows applications to communicate asynchronously by sending messages to each other.
Over the past year, service mesh has officially become a thing, thanks to the launch of Istio (a joint collaboration between IBM, Google, and Lyft) and the adoption of linkerd by big companies like PayPal and Ticketmaster. So what is a service mesh, why have we adopted it at Mailgun, and how are we using it to deliver our software?
There are several traditional ways to fight SPAM: content checking links checking block lists gibberish e.g. generated signup emails etc
Machine learning is often thought to be too complicated for everyday development tasks. We often associate it with things like big data, data mining, data science, and artificial intelligence. Sometimes it feels something like this:
This post was contributed by Jeffrey Chen at Peano Inc. One thing Mailgun and Drupal have in common is that they’re both developer-centric services, making it extremely easy to extend and build on top of their structure and APIs.
Occasionally we all find the need to encrypt files as part of our job. The need to encrypt files comes up for a variety of reasons: the need to commit sensitive information into a repository, the need to transfer information over an insecure medium, or the need to leave something on disk that requires stronger access controls than the operating system provides.
We hosted a Google Hangout yesterday featuring our Lead Digital Product Designer, Lee Munroe. In this hangout, Lee took a deep dive into building HTML templates by first taking a step back to look at the state of HTML email as it stands today
We use Go for a lot of our server development here at Mailgun, and it’s great. Coming from Python, though, there is one thing I really missed:
This is a guest post contributed by Mailgun customer, Ian Smith, CEO of FedSmith Inc, a free news website for the federal workforce.
Each month our team has the opportunity to hack on whatever it is we want to hack on. A fun way to learn something new, collaborate with different team members or just tidy up something that has been bugging us.
When I started coding, I remember debating whether I would want to learn ASP.NET vs PHP. I read thousands of bulletin boards on threads about each language to help me make my decision.
This was posted on September 24, 2014. At Mailgun we recently migrated our blog from WordPress to Ghost. We really like the simplicity, writing experience and speed that Ghost offers.
