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How To: Design Notifications with the Courier Design Studio
Courier enables you to build perfectly formatted messages for all channels, including email, push, SMS, and direct messages. With Courier templates, you can deliver the same message, with the same data, to multiple channels. Learn how to use the designer to get started today.
How To Get A Slack Discovery API Token | Discovery API Docs | Slack
This video takes a developer through OAuth and token creation, in order to start using the Discovery APIs. In this video, we will request the chat:write bot scope, and the discovery:write and discovery:read user scopes. Since the bot scopes need to be installed at the workspace level, and the discovery scopes need to be installed at the organization level, we will need to make two separate requests.
Why Zulip will not get on the blockchain bandwagon
This week, Discord teased plans to integrate a crypto asset wallet. After backlash from their user community, Discord clarified that the feature isn’t ready to ship “for now”. With many popular social and chat apps already on the blockchain bandwagon (including Facebook, Telegram, Signal, Twitter and Reddit), some are wondering whether Zulip might be next. The answer is no.
Ghostifications: Messages from the Afterlife
Early stage startups can require building complex notification systems into their product to improve communication with users and increase user engagement, which can be a time consuming and expensive process. Courier offers a fast and cost-effective solution for developers to build notifications into their products. This workshop demonstrates how you can use the API to start sending notifications in seconds, across all channels. Learn how you can get started with sending 10,000 messages per month with the Free Tier.
The Developer's Guide to Building Notification Systems: Scalability and Reliability
Your CTO handed you a project to revamp or build your product’s notification system recently. You realized the complexity of this project around the same time as you discovered that there’s not a lot of information online on how to do it. Companies like LinkedIn, Uber, and Slack have large teams of over 25 employees working just on notifications, but smaller companies like yours don’t have that luxury. So how can you meet the same level of quality with a team of one?
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.
Build a home for your users with App Home | Tasks App | Slack Platform
Home is where the tabs are! An App Home is a private, one-to-one space shared by the user and the app. The user can reach the App Home from the conversation list within Slack or by clicking on the app's name in messages. Follow along as Slack Developer Advocate Sandra Illi Villarreal shows you how we use the App Home in Tasks App to give users their own place to view tasks.
Node.js VM - Isolating our Apps from the Core Engine
As a JavaScript developer, one might know that Node.js is built on top of Chrome’s V8 Engine, giving us a way to run a JS program extremely fast by compiling it to machine code directly. This in a way gives V8 the role of an Operating System, running on top of your OS, similar to how you might imagine a Virtual Machine running.
