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October 2021

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 seemed like a simple and straightforward project, but you started doing research and realized that not only is the process pretty complicated, there’s not a lot of information online on how to do it. After all, companies like LinkedIn, Uber, and Slack have large teams of over 25 employees working just on notifications.

Introduction to Courier: Send API, Automations, and Recipient Lists

Welcome to Courier! We're really glad that you chose us to a be part of your journey to building an awesome, sophisticated communication system. In this video, we will give a brief introduction on how you can navigate our documentation and build your notifications with Courier using our APIs. We will also build a sample email digest and go demonstrate how the data log can be utilized for better observability into your outgoing notifications.

APIs Are The Prefabrication Of Software

Whether it’s for building a company, monitoring the news, or even making a grocery list, software penetrates every part of the modern western lifestyle. The demand for software far exceeds what developers (and the tech industry as a whole) are capable of supplying from scratch. In order to keep pace with demand, our industry has been increasingly shifting towards a ‘prefabrication’ model of software development via the utilization of third party APIs.

Welcome to Courier

Welcome to Courier. We like put your engineers first, so we have designed a reliable, customizable, and cost-efficient notification system that only takes minutes to integrate into your product. To get started, head over to your Courier app and create your account. The onboarding process will walk you through creating and sending your first notification. You can use the application to build, send, automate, and monitor the status of all of your outbound messages.

The Courier Lab Episode 1 - The Journey of Building Ghostifications V1

Welcome to The Courier Lab, where we demonstrate how Courier works, highlight our favorite community projects, and talk about all things notifications with host @ShreyTheCray. The topic of this episode is "The Journey to Building Ghostifications," including the basics of communication, intro to using the Courier API, and a demo of how to build the Ghostifications project.