Developer

Jul. 6, 2018 by J. Goldstein

How to Determine the Subaccount ID from a Subaccount API Key

For ESPs needing to determine a subaccount CID to pull analytics data from SparkPost, this hack allows you to do so using the subaccount API.

Jun. 22, 2018 by S. Tuck

Bouncy Sink Part 2: Features, Configuration and Installation

We introduced the bouncy sink to test mail traffic patterns, now dive deeper into features, installation and configuration of your own bouncy sink.

Jun. 15, 2018 by S. Tuck

How to Generate Realistic Test Traffic Patterns in your SparkPost Account

Behold, a “bouncy sink” that behaves like real-world recipients and a “traffic generator” to easily test traffic patterns and complex sending environments.

May. 9, 2018 by J. Sorensen

This is My Code

In This is My Code, our lead data scientist outlines code written in Javascript for a NodeJS process used to move data between AWS ElastiCache Redis and S3.

Apr. 23, 2018 by T. Mairs

A FreeMarker Converter in C#

One of our engineers walks through step by step how he created a FreeMarker conversion tool in C# to support SparkPost templates.

Apr. 18, 2018 by D. Chaney

Why We Hack

A look inside the internal hackathon trend, the cross-functional relationships that hackathons encourage and more reasons why we hack at SparkPost.

Apr. 6, 2018 by Sparky

High Touch Client Onboarding Using Process Street and Zapier

How to build a zap connecting SparkPost with Process Street to produce a high touch client onboarding experience for your sales outreach teams.

Apr. 2, 2018 by S. Tuck

Spring Cleaning the SparkPost Postman Collection

See how we've refreshed the SparkPost Postman collection to bring it up to speed with current API features and documentation.

Mar. 19, 2018 by G. Schlossnagle

This is My Architecture

Our CTO discusses some of the unique challenges we face at SparkPost in designing a scalable system that reliably handles large volumes of outbound mail.

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