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Benchmarks, comparisons and notes from building a self-hosted notification engine.
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Notifications Are a Distributed Systems Problem in Disguise
Follow one shipping email from a warehouse in California to an inbox in Melbourne, past flaky Wi-Fi, a sleeping customer, a provider outage and a 7am rush. Idempotency, retries, quiet hours and fallback, in plain English.
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We Tried to Send 500M Notifications a Month on a $25 Server
10-second tests said 375 notifications a second. A 15-minute soak with failures, retries and webhooks said 200. Where a 2 vCPU box breaks, and what it costs to run.
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More coming. Looking for feature-by-feature comparisons? See notifkit vs Novu, Knock, Courier, SuprSend and MagicBell.