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Working on a couple of demos. Here is a sample of the monthly email the system sends out to one of my demo accounts: https://www.dropbox.com/s/oahcy4264byz9zr/Screen%20Shot%2020...

I've been building Emailic for the last few months. https://emailic.com

You can use it to drive automation in external apps, without having to leave your inbox. Zapier and other no-code solutions have such integrations, but they are expensive and require access to all your emails. This was something I was not willing to give up, for privacy reasons.

I've currently completed a Webhook (https://emailic.com/apps/webhook/) and Upload to Dropbox (https://emailic.com/apps/dropbox_upload/) integration. Check it out, and let me know what you all think! (Email address is in my profile.)

Webhooks are great for producers of events, and I'd argue that it's too cumbersome for them to provide an '/events' endpoint primary because of scaling. With webhooks, they can offload events at their own pace.

For consumers, I agree with most here that Kafka is certainly overkill. We've gotten away with a very simple architecture to have reliable event consumption. We point all webhooks to an (AWS) API Gateway backed by Lambdas. The Lambdas push the events to an SQS queue (FIFO-queue, if it needs some sort of sequence), and we take our time consuming the events through a very generic poll.

BetterLesson | Software Engineer | Cambridge, MA (Greater Boston) | ONSITE | https://betterlesson.com

Work with the latest tech, and enjoy an amazing team, with laser focus on a great social mission. Our professional development platform and personalized coaching has increased teacher retention and created an amazing space for teachers to hone their craft.

We work in Python (Flask), React, Node, and some serverless services, with AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway.

Come join us! https://betterlesson.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=35

Write Software, Empower Teachers @ BetterLesson | Senior Engineer | Boston, Cambridge, MA | https://betterlesson.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=29

BetterLesson has the best K-12 lesson plans and content for teachers. We are now hard at work fine-tuning the best professional development platform they have ever experienced. Come help us!

Feel free to reach out directly with any questions: [email protected]

BetterLesson | Software Engineer | Boston, Massachusetts | Full-time, onsite

Work with the latest tech, and enjoy an amazing culture, with laser focus on a great social mission. Join a tight-knit and efficient team as we support our company’s growth.

We're looking for:

* Technical Flexibility

* Development Speed

* Cultural Fit

Our primary stack is Python and ReactJS. We also work with PHP, NodeJS, and Amazon Web Services, such as AWS Lambda.

At BetterLesson (https://betterlesson.com), our mission is to empower teachers (K-12) through personalized professional development, and in turn make a bigger impact on students across the country.

Join us! https://betterlesson.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=10

At BetterLesson[1], we have found them and made all their excellent lessons available online for free (Grades K-12). These lessons are mainly for teacher consumption, but have some great teaching strategies for all to learn. Some examples: http://betterlesson.com/lesson/432502/intro-to-trigonometry-... http://betterlesson.com/lesson/448934/adding-and-subtracting...

[1] http://betterlesson.com/master_teacher_projects

Makes sense. They share the same data centers. See: http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/89992572022/mig...

We at BetterLesson have been working on this for the past 2 years. We have accumulated a vast amount of lesson plans from some of the best teachers throughout the country and from various environments, whether urban, suburban or rural. Teachers have free access to all these Common Core aligned lessons, among other standards that we have started supporting. See http://betterlesson.com/common_core/browse/624/ccss-math-con...

I put together this gist as a quick how-to: https://gist.github.com/3719753

We use RhinoJS to compile our Mustache templates with Hogan, since we don't have a NodeJS environment to compile this in.