When Segments Become Whole

Your Twilio Developer Digest - November Edition. Developer Digest - November Edition [Developer Digest] [Ahoy Twilio]( It's been a big month here at Twilio. [On the 2nd](, Segment – the market-leading customer data platform – joined our family. And [on the 20th]( we celebrated Twilio's 12th birthday with various pie-to-face delivery mechanisms. Thank you for hanging out with us for the November edition of the Dev Digest here on the last day of the month. (We blame the food coma.) [Build a Frustrated Customer Notification App with Segment and Twilio]( One of Twilio's traditions is to reward new employees with our signature red track jackets when they successfully build and demo a Twilio app. On their first official day, Segment Chief Product Development Officer Tido Carriero and Principal Software Engineer Netto Farah successfully built and demoed incredible frustrated customer notification functionality. [Check it out!]( [Add Text Chat To Your Video Calls With The Twilio Conversations API]( Twilio's [Conversations API]( allows you to add conversational messaging across SMS, WhatsApp, and Chat to your app with the convenience of a unified API. Twilio's Miguel Grinberg shows how Conversations is a perfect pairing for a video app, with [sample code and a tutorial in Python](. [How we saved $100k a month with Kafka networking optimization]( Sometimes, the blessing of a massive increase in traffic, interest, or customers goes hand-in-hand with a curse – a massive increase in costs. At Segment, their event processing numbers scaled exponentially... leading to big numbers on their monthly Kafka bill. Learn how the team [architected a solution]( that shaved over $100,000 – a month – off their usage. Join us at Twilio! Enjoy our quirky emails and antics? It's true: we're just as fun at work. If you like our style, [see our open jobs.]( And if you love all-things-video and would like to write, review, and publish content (and possibly contribute to this newsletter often) apply to be a Software Developer for Technical Content. [Apply Here]( [Send your first interactive AMP Email with Twilio SendGrid]( Google's open-source [AMP Email]( promises a near-future era of interactive, dynamic emails. Twilio Developer Evangelist Phil Nash gives us an introduction to the technology, demonstrating [how to send an AMP-enhanced email]( using Twilio SendGrid. [An Introduction to Building Desktop Applications with Electron]( Electron.js is an application framework that makes an enticing proposal to web developers: bring your HTML, JavaScript, and CSS skills, and you can build a cross-platform desktop app. Fikayo Adepoju shows us the basics of how Slack and VS Code do it in this introduction to Electron.js. [Start working on your app today](. [Build a Custom WordPress Plugin to Send SMS with Twilio Programmable Messaging]( WordPress – the (in)famous PHP content management system, blogging platform, and (at this point) web framework – has stood the test of time. Most estimates claim it powers a plurality of the largest sites on the internet. Onwuka Gideon combines two of our favorite things – Twilio and WordPress – [in this tutorial that adds]( Programmable SMS to a WordPress plug-in. We're excited to announce: AHOY! You can now find all of our content in 1 convenient spot. [See what's new](. Get all the latest from Twilio’s developer community: Twilio TV episodes, top blog posts, recent webinars, new 5-minute projects, developer spotlights, docs updates, upcoming events, and more. [Check out Ahoy!]( Got a topic you'd love to see in Dev Digest? Got a bit of feedback? We're listening. Drop us an email at [community@twilio.com](. If you love this Digest, please share it! [Share on Twitter]( [We can't wait to see what you build!] [Twilio]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Don't want to receive emails from Twilio? [Change your email preferences](. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us at . If you're having trouble reading this email, try the [web version](. Twilio 375 Beale St, San Francisco, CA 94105