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How to Improve or Rebuild a Product Notification System: Video

This video will really give you enough to get started thinking about what improvements you might want to make to your notification infrastructure or what notifications you want to send that you’re not sending today and how you should think about building and maintaining those systems moving forward.

The Developer's Guide to Building Notification Systems: Routing and Preferences

In this article, you’ll learn invaluable points to consider when building your own routing service. You’ll understand the requirements for multi-channel support and in choosing the right API providers. You’ll also learn how to design user preferences so that you can make the most out of each message.

The Developer's Guide to Building Notification Systems: Scalability and Reliability

For a company to grow, it will eventually need to decide between the cost of building and maintaining its own system, or opting for the functionality and proven reliability of a third-party product. In this guide, we cover building a scalable and reliable notification system in detail to give you an idea of the required effort of building yourself.

The Developer's Guide to Building Notification Systems: User Requirements

So your CTO has just handed you a project to revamp or build your product’s notification system. It seems like an interesting project before you realize you really don’t know how to go about this and you can’t even find comprehensive resources online to help.

APIs Are The Prefabrication Of Software

The evolution of software development has followed a similar trajectory, with APIs serving as the prefabricated software that companies are leaning on to build software faster and more cheaply than ever before.

Why Student Engineers Should Buy Into the Hype Around Serverless

Serverless architecture is relatively new, yet many startup developers prefer building their foundation on with a Serverless framework. But what's with the hype? What makes developers trust Serverless to the point that companies are willing to spend their resources to rewire their entire backend infrastructure to host their products on platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure?

Why Remote Work is Not Here to Stay at Courier

We all spent a year getting used to remote work; now, the big question is how do we transition back to the in-person work pattern in a new world with Covid-19?

How to Set Up Multi-Channel Notifications in Your AWS Stack

In this article, we’ll walk through an example architecture for building your own notification service with AWS, and show you how to implement it in Node.js. We’ll also discuss a few considerations related to using AWS services for notifications.

Introducing React Toast and Inbox for Notifications That Don’t Suck

With Courier Toast and Inbox, developers can support custom notifications for their users’ specificities and communicate through multiple wide-ranging channels while maintaining a single in-app notifications repository.