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This is a big reason for sure. As you can see in this post, those IP addresses can be hit or miss depending on the provider. At Postmark, we don't really believe in dedicated IPs f…

Hey everyone, Chris Nagele here from Wildbit. For some background, I wrote about our reasons for moving to a private office plan. In short, it's more than putting on some headphone…

SparkPost's claims are misleading here. LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc do not use Sparkpost, they use their on-premise installable software that many ESPs use and pay tens or hun…

Three things to add here: 1. Our pricing reflects the quality of delivery due to being transactional only. With much higher engagement rates, our speed and delivery is superior. Cu…

Thinking of "email delivery as a commodity" is the first mistake people make - all ESPs are not created equal. If this were the case, there would not be such a huge variance in not…

When we were searching for space this was our preferred choice. We wanted a large single floor space with offices on the perimeter. Each office would have a glass wall to see the o…

These are great questions. I'll be sure to do a follow up post in a year and see where we are. I know that the biggest reward when we went from 100% remote to having an office was …

Your first point reinforces our decision on private offices. We encourage only working 8 hours a day. This way you don't have a chance to stay late or work long hours to find that …

Chris from Wildbit here (author of the post). Half of our team is remote. Using physical space for controlling productivity (or lack of) is not a solution. You and the rest of your…

That's the best part, we are not funded at all and are building this office after eight years of profits from our products: Beanstalk, Postmark and dploy.io. We count every dollar …

That's a great point. It reminds me of the "Library Rules" at the 37 Signals office: https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3357-an-office-with-ldquolibr... At the same time, I think visua…

Agree. We'll make some updates to explain it better. Our hope was that the more simplistic overview would be enough. For now, you can read the blog post about it: http://wildbit.co…

Hi Paul. About a year ago we migrated from Rackspace to Server Central, a colo facility in Chicago. Since then performance and uptime have been incredible. You can read more about …

Capitalism works how you want it to work, that is the beauty of it. It's the business principles that lead the decisions that are made, either big or small. The point of the post i…

Hi Ben, the ES connector was part of it. At a certain point we had our custom oplog follower working well. After so many years working with MongoDB, we just lost trust in it, to be…

Sorry, I need to correct that. I meant that shards are basically still primary / secondary with an arbiter for failover. We prefer horizontal nodes instead, like Cloudant, Elastic …

Chris from Postmark here. We definitely had some trouble over the last few weeks. I am hoping we are beyond that in terms of architecture. So far everything looks great. Regarding …

Hi everyone. Chris here from Postmark. I would say that MongoDB durability used to be an issue, but now with journaling and replica sets it's not as much of a concern. There were t…

Hi there. Chris here from Wildbit. I want to make sure I clarify some points. A big reason we waited so long to shut it down was leaving our customers stranded. Even at such low re…

Hey everyone. Chris here from Postmark. This topic means a lot to me, so if you have any questions just post a comment and I'll try to respond quickly.

Note: I run Postmark ( http://postmarkapp.com ) where we handle delivery and bounce processing for a huge volume of email. It depends on how the emails are being sent. The typical …

I think you miss the point here. It's not about betting on one or the other, it's about having options depending on your team or project.