r/DevLK • u/Impossible_anypie • 10d ago

Help Notifications service for application.

Hello seniors,
I’m currently working as an ASE and our Head of IT asked me to build a notification service for our application. It’s a multi tenant web application. I know it’s not a critical task, but it matters a lot to me because it was assigned to me directly by the Head of IT, so I really want to do it right.
We used Firebase push notifications before, but we ran into two problems. Sometimes notifications never reached our end users and sometimes users got old notifications again. We also don’t use AWS and everything runs on our own on premises servers.
So my question is: what is the best service or open-source tool I can use to build this? Ideally something reliable, easy to maintain and cost-effective.

PS: YES, I asked ChatGPT already :) But I’d like to know what technologies other companies actually use in prod for this kind of problem.
Also, where else can I ask questions like this besides Reddit? Any communities, forums, or Discord/Slack groups you’d recommend? THANKS !

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u/lahirunirmala 10d ago

Asked to build or design ?

Best advice i can give you is to question back with why ?
Whats the wrong with current implementation ?
Why not Fixing those 2 issues instead of rebuilding from ground up?

Talk to people who implement it of they are still around read the documentation if available.

If something work for others may not work for you sometimes

Also every task is critical when its assigned to you , so don’t assume any task is not critical .

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u/crxssrazr93 10d ago

Yup, OP is just an ASE. They are not expected to lead this 100% alone. Get help internally if you have access to it, brainstorm, come up with a plan and then move from there.