Speed, Structure, and Smarts: The Notion AI Way
How we combine AI with structured data to deliver a best-in-class work product.
Sarah Sachs
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.
How we evolve code: Notion’s “ratcheting” system using custom ESLint rules
Our custom ESLint approach gradually modernizes code without slowing development. By systematically tracking violations and distributing the workload of fixing them, we maintain high code-quality standards while keeping engineers focused on what matters most.
Ankit Sardesai, Jake Teton-Landis
How we built custom emoji
Our challenge: load millions of personalized, sometimes animated emojis into a workspace without breaking everything. As we strive to make Notion the happiest workspace on earth, it was a technical puzzle worth solving.
Henry Chiu
A brief history of Notion’s data catalog
From chaos to clarity: How Notion transformed its data catalog for better efficiency and insights with TypeScript, JSON Schema, and LLMs.Wendy Jiao, Parul Baweja, Evelyn Wou
Observability for Notion’s Redis Queue
Enhancing infrastructure visibility and performance with a queue proxy serviceGrace Nguyen, Xiaoya He
Engineering
How we sped up Notion in the browser with WASM SQLite
You might have noticed that browsing Notion recently got faster. It's 20 percent faster, to be precise. Here's how we did it.
Carlo Francisco
Software engineer
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
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