We’re excited to announce that we were featured on Beta List over the weekend: http://betali.st/startups/turret-io Thanks to all who signed up so far!
Posts By: tim
Create A High-Performance Launch Page On App Engine In 5 Minutes (or so)
We’ve released v1 of Golapa — an App Engine launch page written in Go that allows a web startup to begin building a mailing list of interested leads. Content is easily editable using the existing templates and CSS is generated using Sass.
Experimental python-cassandra Performance Boost
We use Cassandra pretty heavily. With all of its advantages, one pain point for us has been the python-cassandra driver’s connection speed. Today, I finally dove into the code to figure out if I could squeeze out a little more juice or if I’d need to start caching results to keep our pages loading quickly…. Read more »
Quoted Printable Encoder in Go
turret.io relies on Go for a lot of its email handling. One thing we noticed during development was that while Go currently has support for a quoted printable decoder it didn’t have an encoder. This is surely not optimized yet and it also doesn’t implement Go’s native io.Writer interface, but it serves its purpose for now. It’s… Read more »
Sender ID, SPF, WTF?
There’s a fair amount of confusion around the usage of SenderID and SPF records, and rightly so — their syntax is nearly identical and they both seem to do the same thing. So, what’s the deal? If you’d like to read the full history on them both, feel free to checkout the Wikipedia articles which… Read more »