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Re:How We Manage a Million Push Notifications an Hour by SkyPuncher on Thursday August 29, 2019 @11:01PM (#20835637)
Honestly, how many companies DON'T rely on some proprietary cloud provider at some point?

* SMS - You can't just interface directly with some cell company (which is proprietary anyways). * EMAIL - Have you tried to send your own emails in the past decade? Just use a provider. * Push Notifications - Have to use Firebase for Android anyways.

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Your core stuff should limit proprietary stuff. Edges are going to change over time no matter what, might as well use stuff that makes you faster now.

Re:How We Manage a Million Push Notifications an Hour by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC on Friday August 30, 2019 @06:24AM (#20837272)
> * SMS - You can't just interface directly with some cell company (which is proprietary anyways).

Wut? People don't even know anymore that you can use cellphones to send SMS?! (And no, that's not the only option, SS7 works just fine as well.)

> * EMAIL - Have you tried to send your own emails in the past decade? Just use a provider.

Have you? Talking nonsense does not make expertise ...

Re:How We Manage a Million Push Notifications an Hour by SkyPuncher on Friday August 30, 2019 @07:18AM (#20837518)
Email in particular. Sending your own isn't the problem. Managing your reputation, deliverability, etc just isn't fun to deal with.