Sending emails reliably and quickly from your CF app with SendGrid
summary
Explains why 22% of legitimate email is never delivered and shows two concrete delivery paths: SMTP for broad compatibility and the faster HTTP API used by SendGrid. Shows Cloud Foundry steps: cf create-service then cf bind-service and cf push to wire a Node/Express app to SendGrid, demonstrates using 25,000 free emails/month on the CF marketplace, and implements a live autoresponder using SendGrid Parse Webhook that turns incoming subjects into bird-call audio and sends it back.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction and speaker intro
- 0:43Why SendGrid exists for emails
- 2:50SMTP vs HTTP for sending emails
- 3:53Cloud Foundry integration with SendGrid
- 4:57Live code demo setup
- 6:03Sending first test email
- 7:26Building an autoresponder
- 8:29Deploying the demo app
- 9:33Live audience interaction and resources
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