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The Developer's Guide To Notification System Tooling In 2025

- Chris Bell tl;dr: “If you opened this blog post, you’re probably about to wade into the complicated ecosystem of notification and customer engagement tooling. It can feel like a daunting task. Not to fear, in this post we’re here to walk you through the basics of notification systems and the ecosystem of tools, frameworks, and vendors that surround them.”

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The Developer's Guide To Notification System Tooling In 2025

- Chris Bell tl;dr: “If you opened this blog post, you’re probably about to wade into the complicated ecosystem of notification and customer engagement tooling. It can feel like a daunting task. Not to fear, in this post we’re here to walk you through the basics of notification systems and the ecosystem of tools, frameworks, and vendors that surround them.”

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The Ultimate DevEx Playbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Improving Developer Experience

tl;dr: Data on metrics like revenue, employee turnover, and job satisfaction provide crucial insights into efficiency, quality, and direction. But they don’t capture if your engineers are feeling overworked, underappreciated, or unmotivated. Access the Ultimate DevEx Playbook for insights and best practices from Jellyfish and AWS so you can get closer to a better developer experience now.

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Learn What Role Based Access Control Is And How To It Simplifies B2B Permission Management

tl;dr: Managing permissions in large SaaS applications can be a nightmare. Providing team owners a way to grant functionality to users in a simplified way can be the difference between companies purchasing your software or going with a competitor. Clerk provides you with a way to build this functionality with minimal effort.

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How To Fork: Best Practices And Guide

- Joaquim Rocha tl;dr: “Over the years, my work did sometimes involve maintaining forks of various open-source projects. That’s not the case with my job now, but when a colleague reached out for help with a fork that hadn’t been rebased in ages, it got me thinking that the steps I follow might be useful for other developers too. Hence this article.”

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Writing System Software: Code Comments

- Salvatore Sanfilippo tl;dr: “In this post I analyze Redis comments, trying to categorize them. Along the way I try to show why, in my opinion, writing comments is of paramount importance in order to produce good code, that is maintainable in the long run and understandable by others and by the authors during modifications and debugging activities.”

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Build vs Buy: A Guide For Notification Systems

- Sam Seely tl;dr: A complete guide to evaluating a build vs. buy decision for products transactional notification system. This piece covers the challenges faced by teams evaluating whether to build or buy a notification system, what notification systems look like at scale and the requirements they share, how to use a framework to assess any build vs buy decision, how to apply that framework against the build decision for a notification system.

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Build An Isolated, Collaborative Team-Based Task Manager

- Brian Morrison tl;dr: In this guide, we demonstrate how you can build an environment that isolates tasks to specific teams, enabling developers to manage team-specific tasks efficiently. Using Clerk's Organizations and RBAC features and Neon's Postgres database, this setup is ideal for leaders looking to implement scalable and secure team management solutions.

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The Guide To Becoming Enterprise Ready For SaaS Businesses

tl;dr: "Crossing the Enterprise Chasm" is an inevitable transition every B2B SaaS company has to make when they start selling to enterprises. Although it's a necessary step, moving upmarket is fraught with challenges — building enterprise features takes a ton of capital, it requires aggressive prioritizations, and engineers generally don't like building enterprise features. Here's a guide for product and engineering leaders on making their SaaS apps Enterprise Ready.

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How I Computer In 2024

- Jon Seager tl;dr: “I’m always fascinated to see how people use their computers - which applications they choose, how they set up their desktop environments and even how their screens are laid out on their desk. I’ve learned some great tricks from friends and colleagues over the years, so I thought I’d write up how I use my machines in 2024.”

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