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Re:Building a push notification system for scale with Go (Ta... by futuretext on Friday May 15, 2015 @02:18PM (#9552554)
Have you tried 3rd party push companies like Urban Airship or Parse? Looking at those two options Vs. building it ourselves... Any advice would be welcomed (expecting about 5-10k pushes/day).
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Re:Building a push notification system for scale with Go (Ta... by ovokinder on Friday May 15, 2015 @02:24PM (#9552617)
Easiest way to tell whether it's worth it or not is to run some back of the envelope math on how much it'll cost to build and run (dev time + infra costs) vs relying on 3rd party.

5-10k seems like a low enough volume for 3rd party to be a good idea.

When you get to the high hundred thousands (let alone millions or tens of millions) it becomes prohibitively expensive to not roll in your own system.

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