Notion Engineering Blog & Tech Articles

The article discusses Notion's journey in scaling its vector search infrastructure, achieving a 10x increase in scale while reducing costs by 90% over two years.

The article discusses the development and implementation of Spot Balancer, a tool created by Notion in collaboration with AWS to optimize the cost and reliability of running Apache Spark on Kuberne...

The article introduces Scruff, an AI teammate developed by Notion's security team, which automates the triaging and investigation of security alerts, saving over 6 hours per week.

The article discusses the implementation of Offline Mode in Notion, a feature that allows users to create, edit, and view pages without an internet connection.

The article provides an in-depth look at Notion's hosted Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, detailing its capabilities and integration with AI tools like Cursor and Claude.

The article discusses Notion's AI architecture, emphasizing its adaptability to various tasks and the integration of AI into its core product design.

The article discusses Notion's innovative 'ratcheting' system, which utilizes custom ESLint rules to gradually modernize their codebase while maintaining developer velocity.

The article details the development of custom emojis in Notion, highlighting the technical challenges and solutions involved in integrating these personalized icons into the workspace.

This article explores the evolution of Notion's data catalog, detailing the challenges faced and solutions implemented across three distinct phases.

The article discusses the implementation of a queue proxy service at Notion to enhance observability and scalability of their Redis-based task queue.

This article discusses how Notion improved its web application performance by implementing WebAssembly (WASM) SQLite for caching data in the browser.

The article discusses how Notion built and scaled its data lake to manage a tenfold increase in data over three years, driven by user and content growth.

Notion has significantly improved the launch speed of its Android app, making it more than twice as fast compared to the beginning of 2023.

The article discusses how Generation Z is reshaping workplace expectations and the challenges companies face in adapting to these changes.

This article discusses Notion's recent horizontal re-sharding of its PostgreSQL database to accommodate increased traffic without downtime.

The article discusses the development of the Notion API, focusing on the unique challenges and decisions made during its design process.

The article discusses the process of sharding PostgreSQL at Notion, detailing the challenges faced and the lessons learned during the migration from a monolithic database to a horizontally-partitio...

The article discusses Notion's migration of its marketing site to Next.

The article discusses the innovative data model behind Notion, emphasizing its block-based architecture that allows users to manipulate information flexibly and intuitively.