PostHoc: Testing Apps that Send Email

I have developed a utility program that is extremely useful for testing and demonstrating applications that send email.  It is called Post Hoc.   As far as your application is concerned, it is an SMTP server, but it comes with a built in user interface to let you see and inspect the email that was sent.  Without any fuss.

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Quest for Stability

A friend referred me to this excellent article about preparing for system disaster:  Resilience Engineering: Learning to Embrace Failure.  This is related to a theme I have been calling “robustness”.