The Courier Blog

How to Send Email with Ruby

In this tutorial, we’ll show you an easy way to add email functionality to your Ruby app. You’ll learn how to set up your email service, design your email template, and test and preview your email before publishing it to production. You’ll also find sample code you can use to quickly start sending in your Ruby program.

Trick-or-Treating From a Distance Using Slack

For our Pre-Halloween October 28th Courier Live, Nate Munger returned to help me come up with a socially distanced way to handle Trick-or-Treaters using Courier.

Why We Are Moving off REST and Implementing GraphQL

We’re excited to be moving Courier’s internal infrastructure and eventually our customer-facing APIs to GraphQL. In this blog post I’ll talk about why we’ve decided to make the change from REST and what our plans are for the rollout.

How Bluecrew Uses Multi-Channel Notifications To Connect Thousands of Hourly Workers With Employers

Bluecrew’s Chief Product Officer shares why the W-2 staffing platform chose Courier to scale their notifications infrastructure. See how they engage thousands of hourly workers and employers with multi-channel notifications.

Announcing the Courier Destination for Segment – Send Multi-Channel Notifications With No Code

We’re excited to announce the Courier destination for Segment is publicly available. Product teams can now send targeted notifications to users on any channel – without shipping any code. 

Sending Interactive Emails Built With Parcel

For our October 21st Courier Live, Avi Goldman joined me to talk about building Interactive Emails using Parcel.

How to Add a Direct Twilio SMS Integration With Sendgrid Emails

In this white paper, we share the strategies we have discovered through our work in building direct integrations and explain how to add SMS with Twilio to an existing SendGrid integration. We'll help you think through the various questions involved and set up your infrastructure.

Exploring the Brand New Courier Lists API Using Postman

For our October 14th Courier Live, Arlemi Turpault joined me to talk about using the Courier API with Postman. Postman is a collaborative platform for API development. Together we walked through our existing Courier Collection on the Postman API Network. We then explored updating and using it with our new Lists API.

Sending Notifications via Microsoft Teams

Tony Nguyen from our engineering team returned to help me send my first notification using Microsoft Teams during our October 7th Courier Live. Together we navigated spinning up a bot application in Microsoft Azure and connected it to the Microsoft Teams integration in Courier. After updating an existing notification to include a Microsoft Teams channel, we attempted to send the notification to a channel and as a proactive message to a user.