Building and scaling Notion’s data lake
In the past 3 years Notion's data has expanded 10x. Here's how we built our data lake to manage this growth.
XZ Tie, Nathan Louie, Thomas Chow, Darin Im, Abhishek Modi, Wendy Jiao
Thoughts on the future of work,
from the people and teams creating it.
from the people and teams creating it.
Tech
— How we’re building Notion, block by block.
Notion on Android is now more than twice as fast to launch
Here's our approach to optimizing app startup and our ongoing efforts to enhance the mobile experience for all our Android users.
Karn Saheb
Engineering
Gen Z is changing the way we work. Are companies prepared?
Companies need to listen to the next generation of workers and adopt tools that work for all employees. The knowledge workers of today aren’t afraid to demand change, and the companies that aren’t open to it risk losing their best and brightest new talent.
Robbie O'Connor
GM, EMEA, Notion
The Great Re-shard: adding Postgres capacity (again) with zero downtime
How we horizontally re-sharded our databases (and nobody noticed).Arka Ganguli, Tanner Johnson, Ben Kraft, Nathan Northcutt
Infrastructure Engineering
Creating the Notion API
The ability to access Notion content through an API is one of the top requested features from our users. Learn about how we designed our REST API to meet the challenge of preserving the flexibility and expressivity of Notion’s data model.
Alicia Liu
Engineering
Herding elephants: Lessons learned from sharding Postgres at Notion
This months-long project migrated Notion’s PostgreSQL monolith into a horizontally-partitioned database fleet — an effort to make Notion faster and more reliable for years to come.
Garrett Fidalgo
Infrastructure Technical Lead
Migrating Notion's marketing site to Next.js
Improving performance and user experience by moving from a client-rendered marketing site to a static site generated by Next.js.
Cory Etzkorn
Design & Engineering, Notion
The data model behind Notion's flexibility
Notion’s data model enables the product’s most foundational component: blocks. Through blocks, we allow users more flexibility and better control over their information.
Jake Teton-Landis
Engineering