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Questions tagged [notifications]

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Notifications in a microservice architecture: In Application Logic vs. Database Triggers

Context Our group builds and is responsible for maintaining multiple apps for a larger institution. We are in the process of breaking up our monoliths into reusable microservices (hooray!). When we got up to notifications (primarily email…
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Concept of push notifications - why is it only on mobile platforms? OSX/Windows/Linux?

At an operating system level, mobile operating systems support the notion of push notifications or a socket level 'persistent' communication with an app, whenever it is online. Why have the major computer operating systems (OSX, Linux, Windows)…
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Best practice to architect a system in which local users may override global definitions

Our travel industry client, operating across three continents and several countries, wants to standardize the process of choosing travel packages, air routes, hotels, and hundreds of other travel options. Today, local travel agencies decide…
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When to send a push notification to a chat app?

I want to add push notifications to an chat application I am working on. Initially I thought that I should write business logic to detect that a message wasn't delivered and then attempt to send the notification for the unread message. If a user's…
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Schedule Task prevent duplicate notification

I am creating schedule tasks that run on daily basis monitor system events and send email notification based on some criteria. For example, if user subscription will expire after one month, task scheduler will detect that by comparing dates then…
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How to build notification system in Azure

I have a system running in Azure that accepts messages via a REST endpoint. The customer has a certain number of devices that send some data for example temperature and we present this data in a web interface. The part of the system that accepts…
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Why are cloud services needed for push notifications?

We currently have a customer that wants us to implement push notifications to our app. The problem is that for this customer, security is really, really important... I am not able to find any official documents, that state that the only way to send…
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Notification system design on mobile apps using AWS SNS

To simplify the use case, let's say I have a mobile app available for Android and iOS, similar to Instagram, where users can upload photos that can be commented, liked or disliked by other users. When a user comments, likes or dislikes a photo you…
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How to design inter-service communication with notifications microservice?

I'm creating an application based on the microservice architecture and stuck on notifications microservice design. Basically it should be a service that notifies users about events happening in the app through multiple channels. Channel selection…
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Handling notifications at scale

How do applications like twitter handle notifications at scale. For example @BarackObama has 131.3 million followers. When he tweets, how is that notification sent to all 131.3 million followers. I supposed you could load all 131.3 million followers…
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Notification System Design for Multi User Application

I have a requirement to design a notification system for multi-user(~1000 users) application, here are the high level requirements. System event gets triggered on specific operations. On event trigger, individual notification for all(or sometimes…
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Some questions on mobile push notification?

I need to work on android mobile push notification. I have recently gone through some of the tutorial on google. I would like to summarize the my understanding first Developer registers the app with play store and get some unique code called…
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How to handle the server side push notifications when an Apple device token refreshes?

Each time an iOS app is installed a new device token is generated. When the app asks the user for permission to push notifications one can get the new device token value. How can I know that this device token is from the same device (e.g., the user…
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sending ajax request with setinterval . is it good?

I am developing a website where client needs that any notification should reach as soon as it is created. so i am using setinterval function of jquery and using ajax requests to get the notifications. the time interval I set is 2 seconds. and its…
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Is there evidence to suggest that email notifications of build-breakage from a ci-server are industry standard?

In my organisation people regularly have 3K+ emails in their inbox. They're swamped and non-important email is ignored and lost. (Think big Corporation). Email ceases to be a useful medium in this environment. For a while on our CI Server (eg…
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