Ting Blog
Notes on notifications, connecting messaging channels, and what we learned building Ting — written by the people who actually build it.
LINE Notify is gone — an honest comparison of what to use instead
LINE Notify has shut down. A straight comparison of the real replacements in Thailand — LINE Messaging API, Telegram, Discord, ntfy and Ting — with the trade-offs and cost of each.
Read more →Server alerts on your phone in 5 minutes, with no bot to write
The actual steps: sign up, create an app, send the first curl, then a disk-check script in cron and a tappable button on the card. Five minutes, start to finish.
Read more →7 mistakes in notification system design (I've made every one of them)
Sending everything, no severity, duplicates under stress, messages at 3 a.m. — the mistakes that make recipients mute your app, and how to think about fixing each one.
Read more →Why sending notifications needs a queue (and retries that don't duplicate)
Five ways fire-and-forget notification code breaks — slow downstream APIs, lost sends, duplicates after a restart, workers fighting over jobs — and the minimum structure that fixes them, with real SQL.
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