Meet Scruff, Security's New AI Teammate
See how Notion’s security team built Scruff, an AI teammate that automates alert triage, speeds investigations, and scales with on-call demand.
Nishil Shah
Software Engineer, Notion
Thoughts on the future of work,
from the people and teams creating it.
from the people and teams creating it.
Tech
— How we’re building Notion, block by block.
How we made Notion available offline
Offline Mode was Notion's most requested feature for years, but building it meant solving tough technical challenges around our unique block architecture. Here's the architecture and data model that made it possible.
Raymond Xu
Software Engineer, Notion
Notion’s hosted MCP server: an inside look
Earlier this year, we got requests for a Notion MCP server that would let AI agents work directly with Notion workspaces. Here’s how we built it, from our initial open-source experiment to today’s hosted solution with custom tools designed specifically for AI workflows.Kenneth Sinder
Software Engineer, Notion
Speed, Structure, and Smarts: The Notion AI Way
How we combine AI with structured data to deliver a best-in-class work product.
Sarah Sachs
How we evolve code: Notion’s “ratcheting” system using custom ESLint rules
Our custom ESLint approach gradually modernizes code without slowing development. By systematically tracking violations and distributing the workload of fixing them, we maintain high code-quality standards while keeping engineers focused on what matters most.
Ankit Sardesai, Jake Teton-Landis
How we built custom emoji
Our challenge: load millions of personalized, sometimes animated emojis into a workspace without breaking everything. As we strive to make Notion the happiest workspace on earth, it was a technical puzzle worth solving.
Henry Chiu
A brief history of Notion’s data catalog
From chaos to clarity: How Notion transformed its data catalog for better efficiency and insights with TypeScript, JSON Schema, and LLMs.Wendy Jiao, Parul Baweja, Evelyn Wou
Observability for Notion’s Redis Queue
Enhancing infrastructure visibility and performance with a queue proxy serviceGrace Nguyen, Xiaoya He
Engineering
How we sped up Notion in the browser with WASM SQLite
You might have noticed that browsing Notion recently got faster. It's 20 percent faster, to be precise. Here's how we did it.
Carlo Francisco
Software engineer
Building and scaling Notion’s data lake
In the past 3 years Notion's data has expanded 10x. Here's how we built our data lake to manage this growth.XZ Tie, Nathan Louie, Thomas Chow, Darin Im, Abhishek Modi, Wendy Jiao