April 2016 Summaries

The Postmark team has introduced a new tool called the Postmark API Explorer, which allows users to try every endpoint in the Postmark API from their browser. This UI is built using Swagger and provides a dynamic API client for each endpoint. The Postmark API uses the Swagger spec to generate API clients for many programming languages, including Python, Java, Objective-C, Perl, Scala, Qt 5 C++ and more. The use of Swagger allows for easier maintenance and updates of the API clients, as well as reducing errors in manual coding. The Postmark team plans to leverage this standard to provide even more clients for their API, making it a valuable tool for developers working with Postmark.

Postmark has introduced a new status page where they publicly share their inbox rates and delivery times across major ISPs, including Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook, iCloud, and AOL. The company aims to increase transparency by sharing this data with customers, who can expect great deliverability regardless of the volume or pricing plan. Postmark recognizes that email delivery speed is critical, especially for infrastructure products like email, and has created a new metric called "Time to Inbox" to measure this speed. By sharing their approach and tools used to gather this information, Postmark aims to help the industry move towards increased transparency and better decision-making for customers. The company's goal is to be the fastest and most reliable email service provider in the world, and the new status page represents a step towards achieving this goal by providing customers with more information about their deliverability performance.