The Longest Email I Ever Sent (Programmatically)

It was a quiet day in July when I got a message from SendGrid about a service I run, CodeTriage, which helps people contribute to open source projects, had gone over its limits. Calls to send out emails were all failing. The fix was easy: bump up the limits by going to the Heroku dashboard, click “edit”, and adjust the plan.Previously I got notifications that I was almost out of credits for the service, but since it was SOOO close to the end of the month, I thought I could squeek by without having to upgrade. I was wrong. No biggie though, as soon as I upgraded my add-on emails started to flow again.