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May 2021

Courier April Product Release Updates: In-app Inbox, Preferences, and Automations

Every month, Developer Advocate Aydrian Howard brings together a team of Courier engineers on Courier Live to discuss which updates recently made it into production, what is happening with the features in beta, and what to expect from the product and team in the near future.

Sending Notifications through Slack with Courier | Robust Audit Logs

Courier is the fastest way to design your notifications once and deliver them through push notifications, direct messages like Slack and Facebook Messenger, SMS, and email–with a single Courier API rather than having to integrate each provider API separately. Courier's Notification Designer empowers every team member to build beautiful notifications. Route each message to the most effective notification channel using a robust delivery rules engine without touching your code.

The Three Things to Never Build In Your App: Authentication, Notifications, and Payments

Back in early 2018, I embarked on a side gig with a few partners - the idea was to make ridesharing socially engaging and fun. We made a ton of mistakes and never really got the product off the launchpad, however in retrospect, the biggest mistakes we made were wasting precious time in writing code for authentication and authorization as well as user notifications. We learned to focus on customer value the hard way.

How We Kept Datadog From Blowing Up Our AWS Bill

Some time back, our engineering leaders suddenly noticed dramatically increased billings from AWS that far outpaced typical benchmarks. The problem turned out to be data insights tools sending an unexpectedly large volume of data. The solution required a deep dive into how AWS billing works and an intricate series of steps to discover the location of the firehose of data.

Courier Live | April Product Release Notes | In-App notifications | Inbox | Automations | Webhooks

Courier is the fastest way to design your notifications once and deliver them through push notifications, direct messages like Slack and Facebook Messenger, SMS, and email–with a single Courier API rather than having to integrate each provider API separately. Courier's Notification Designer empowers every team member to build beautiful notifications. Route each message to the most effective notification channel using a robust delivery rules engine without touching your code.