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— How we’re building Notion, block by block.

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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

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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

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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

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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