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— How we’re building Notion, block by block.

Balancing cost and reliability for Spark on Kubernetes

Today, we’re excited to open-source Spot Balancer in collaboration with AWS, a tool that helped us reduce Spark compute costs by up to 90% while maintaining reliability.

Justin Lee

Software Engineer, Notion

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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

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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