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2026
The Case for an Email Ingestion Layer
Teams have scripts on one side and generic automation on the other. I introduce the email ingestion layer as the missing operating model between inboxes and applications.
Why Retries and Duplicates Break Trust in Email Webhooks
As email moves into production workflows, retry behavior becomes a trust decision. I break down the design rules that keep outcomes consistent.
Email Routing Rules Get Complicated Faster Than Teams Expect
A single mailbox looks easy to automate until support, finance, ops, and product all need different actions from the same messages. I break down how route explosion starts, why scattered rules fail...
Deterministic JSON Is an Executive Issue
Most leaders do not lose sleep over field order or schema versions. They do lose sleep over slow launches, brittle integrations, and rising maintenance cost. In this post, I show why stable event p...
Product Update: March 2026
This March release adds native Gmail and Microsoft 365 mailbox connections, plus a loopback mailbox for faster testing, so teams can move from setup to real email events with far less friction.
MIME Parsing Is More Hostile Than It Looks
I have learned that email parsing feels easy right up to the moment real traffic arrives. MIME structure, headers, and body variants turn small parser misses into routing bugs, bad payloads, and su...