Architecting Serverless Push Notification System in AWS

Wed, Aug 31, 2016 - Read in 3 Min

One of the best approaches to increase and keep customer engagement with your app is push notification and as you may know there are many services such SNS, Firebase, Pushwoosh, Urban Airship, carnival and etc., to address this need.

Recently at Mindvalley we have decided to use one of the available solutions to send push notifications to our web and mobile users. The new service should support following requirements;

  • Integrable with our user management system
  • Authentication and Authorization with Auth0
  • Send notification to user (multiple devices, multiple platform) not only single device
  • Schedule notification
  • Flexible user segmentation
  • Comprehensive API to manage notification system

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