Cloud Computing: Sendgrid adds Parse, Stackmob, Azure integrations
December 13, 2012
Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.
SendGrid is inching towards ubiquity with new integrations to Parse, Stackmob and Windows Azure mobile backend services. SendGrid is popular with developers who want easy email integration for their mobile apps and who don’t want to rely too much on Amazon services.
SendGrid keeps moving toward ubiquity. The company, which brings e-mail delivery to popular applications like foursquare, Pinterest, and Airbnb, now integrates with Parse, Stackmob and Windows Azure mobile-backend-as-a-service (MbaaS) options. That should make it easier for more mobile devleopers to build email delivery and alerts into their applications without having to sweat the details of their infrastructure. Last week SendGrid announced tie ins to the popular Twilio APIs that enable SMS text and voice integration into mobile apps…
This is a big deal because most mobile app users expect to communicate via their apps. What’s the good of foursquare if you can’t alert the world that you ousted Joe Schmoe as mayor of your Dunkin Donuts? The new MbaaS integrations are all available now, according to Boulder, Colo.-based SendGrid. One of the key advantages of SendGrid, developers say, is it lessens their overall reliance on Amazon Web Services for capabilities above and beyond basic compute and storage functionality…
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