Pascal

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Full-stack engineer building rootmail.io Substack publication: robertpaschal.substack.com Drop a follow

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Pascal
@paschals_robert
Nov 4
Every email tool makes you pick a lane. Transactional (Resend, Postmark). Marketing (Mailchimp). Sales sequences (Salesloft). Three products, three data models, three bills — and your customer's reply lands in none of them.
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Pascal
@paschals_robert
10h
I wrote that transaction boundaries live in the repository. Then a reader asked the question that broke it: one action, three tables, one unit of work. Where does the boundary live?
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Pascal
@paschals_robert
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I added encryption for our tenants' signing keys. Then I found the version I'd shipped was worse than no encryption.
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Pascal
@paschals_robert
Nov 6
Say the pain, not the architecture. I described rootmail by its architecture: tenants, DKIM, reputation. And the reader still couldn't say what problem it solved. The pain is simpler: your customer's mail silently stops arriving and nobody can explain why. Lead with that.
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Pascal
@paschals_robert
Nov 6
I think google one is a good deal. Like really good compared to possibly other companies and their offers
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