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Sure, it is obviously biased – I started Courier because I think developers shouldn't be building their notifications infra themselves. Why would you offload p
by troygoode 5y ago
Sure, it is obviously biased – I started Courier because I think developers shouldn't be building their notifications infra themselves.
Why would you offload payments instead of e.g. connecting directly to payment gateways yourself, but wouldn't do the same for auth & notifications?
- croes 5y agoPayment has lots of legal pitfalls if done wrong not to mention the financial damage.
- troygoode 5y agoFWIW given GDPR, CCPA, et al so do auth & communication. I'd honestly have a big problem with our team wanting to store passwords ourselves...
- croes 5y agoYou don't store passwords. And regarding GDPR, I have problems giving sensible data to third parties. Another point of failure and no control for me what happens to the data.
- worldsoup 5y agoBoth auth and notifications get extraordinary complex at even minimal scale. Obviously each business needs to decide which areas make sense to invest from tech perspective but LinkedIn and AirBnB each spend around $20m/year just on their notification systems. https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/airbnbs-promotions-and-communications-platform-6266f1ffe2bd https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/airbnbs-promotions-and... https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2018/03/air-traffic-controller--member-first-notifications-at-linkedin https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2018/03/air-traffic-co...