Go, IronWorker, and SendGrid at Gengo (a repost)
Shawn Smith from Gengo recently wrote a post on their use of Go, the programming language that we also use at Iron.io for our backend services. (Gengo is a popular people-powered translation platform based in Tokyo and San Mateo.)The post discusses several of the apps where they're using Go including a deployment app and several conversions of PHP and Python apps. The one that caught our attention is their use of Go with IronMQ and SendGrid to send out large volumes of emails to their user base.Here's an excerpt from the post:
We created a service to send emails that uses Iron.io‘s queue service, IronMQ. We call this the Email Consumer, which pulls JSON payloads off of a queue before rendering and sending the email that matches the ID in the payload.
[When] a new customer signs up on our website, our web application puts a JSON payload with an ID onto the queue. The Email Consumer consumes the payload and looks up the email subject for the email with the given ID, also rendering the template with the given data. In this case, the data is simply the user’s name. It also localizes the strings in the template based on the language code provided (in this case, it’s Japanese) and sends the email via SendGrid, welcoming the customer to Gengo.
"Moving all of our emails into one place helps us easily make consistent style and copy edits. We send over 50 different emails to customers and translators through the Email Consumer, and to date it has sent over 500,000 emails without a problem."
– Shawn Smith, Go Developer at Gengo
About Gengo
Gengo helps businesses and individuals go global by providing fast, high quality translation powered by the crowd. Upload copy to their website or via API and then their platform springs into action, allocating work orders among thousands of qualified translators in real-time. The platform currently draws from a network of 10,000+ pre-tested translators working across 34 languages.About the Original Author
Shawn Smith is a software developer from Boston, Massachusetts. After graduating from Northeastern University, he moved to San Francisco to work for Rackspace and now works at Gengo in Tokyo. His favorite programming language is Go.