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
Tech
— How we’re building Notion, block by block.
Artificial intelligence in marketing: how AI is changing the way companies market
Let’s take a deeper look at AI in marketing, how it works, and what the future of AI-powered marketing tools looks like.
Drew Evans
Marketing
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