The Courier Blog

9 Ways Product Management Expectations Differ from Reality

As a former product manager, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed out of college, I remember clearly coming into the role with a set of rosy expectations that did not align at all with reality. I want to share my experience of what product was like for me, and a smattering of the various ironies that I experienced on the job.

Getting the Most out of Courier Logs

During our August 19th Courier Live, Tony Nguyen from our engineering team joined me to talk about my favorite Courier feature, the logs. We presented a high level overview of the logs and dove into the details of each timeline event in the Courier Application. We then covered how you could retrieve the same information using the Messages API.

Onboarding as a Software Engineer During Lockdown Due to Covid-19

Tony's first week at Courier, which coincided with the first week of the Covid-19 lockdown in San Francisco.

No Code Notifications powered by Segment

Danny Douglass from our engineering team joined me for our August 12th Courier Live. We discussed a No Code approach to sending notifications using Courier as a Segment destination. It took less than 30 minutes from setup to sending our first notification.

How to Use The Shadow Dom To Isolate Styles on a DOM That Isnt Yours

Shadow DOM is an API for DOM encapsulation. It's perfect for when you need to embed a widget in a DOM you don't have access to.

Supporting Idempotent Requests with the Courier Node.js SDK

During our August 5th Courier Live, I was joined by Riley Napier, one of our Sr. Software Engineers. Together we updated the Courier Node.js SDK to support our new Idempotent Requests feature.

How An Event Driven Architecture Works

Event-Driven Architecture: how it works, why we use it at Courier, and what our experience has been like so far.

Branding and white-labeling email notifications

During our July 29th Courier Live, I was joined by our Head of Customer Success, Nate Munger. Together we discussed our new Brands feature set and walked through using it to send an email.

Live streaming with the Courier Community

Every Wednesday at noon Pacific, we'll be streaming Courier Live on our Twitch channel. Our first Courier Live, where we walked through adding email and text notifications to an existing application using Courier, is available on YouTube.