Emmanuel

Scala Developper @colisweb. My tweets are my own. #Scala #Haskell #functionalprogramming #DDD @[email protected]

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

Common among scientists

[L'hexagone en vert sur Electricity Maps @GouxFlorent]

Tiens je retombe là-dessus.

[Malte Ubl @cramforce]

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- It texts and calls
- It takes photos
- It plays audio books and is literally an e-reader
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[Docteur Laurent Alexandre @dr_l_alexandre]

Monsieur le Ministre

Occupez vous des vrais enjeux au lieu de casser les couilles de la société civile 😘😘😘 en intervenant sur tout et n’importe quoi

[Emmanuel @elongeau]

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[François Momboisse @fmomboisse]

“Je suis parti du CEA à 61 ans parce que j’ai été mis à la retraite. A Ohio State j’ai pu continuer la recherche et enseigner pendant encore 12 ans”, Pierre Agostini, 82 ans, prix Nobel de physique..

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

Spectacular Sun halo filmed over Sweden.

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[Emmanuel @elongeau]

@an0rak_dev Hey you!

[Saurabh Dashora @ProgressiveCod2]

I discovered the shocking truth about building flexible systems!

This happened while I was reading about Notion’s Data Model.

And the truth turned out to be painfully simple.

Now I can’t wait to share it with you. So here it is👇

Every software engineer has an innate desire to build flexible systems.

Systems that can support any requirements you throw at them.

Usually, this thought process only creates trouble.

You end up building products that try to do too much at the same time. And they end up collapsing like a pack of cards.

But Notion is one of the few products that has avoided this trend.

Over the years, it has managed to support many different requirements and use cases.

You may have seen or used Notion as a:

✅ Note-taking app
✅ To-Do Lists
✅ Project Management app
✅ CMS
✅ Digital Brain

...and more!

A large part of this success goes to the incredibly flexible data model developed by Notion’s team.

But what’s the secret to this flexibility?

It’s the concept of Blocks.

Blocks in Notion are a unit of information.

There are multiple types of Blocks such as:

- Text
- Image
- List
- Row
- Page

Think of Blocks in Notion as Lego blocks in a set.

You combine smaller Blocks to make a bigger Block - a classic demonstration of composition.

Despite their multiple uses, each Block has some key attributes such as:

- ID : Unique and randomly generated UUID V4
- Properties : Customer and user-defined fields
- Type : The kind of Block (text, list, image)

These attributes control how a Block is displayed within the Notion editor.

However, that’s not all.

Each Block also has other attributes meant for linking it to other Blocks in the system.

For example:

- Content : Array of block IDs for nesting blocks inside other blocks
- Parent - The ID of the Block’s parent.

Here’s what a typical Block representation looks like.

So - what’s the simple truth about building flexible systems that we can learn from Notion?

Don’t try to solve all problems directly with your solution.

Instead do this:

✅ Build your software solution like a set of tools.
✅ Make it easy for the users to use those tools.
✅ Support the community in teaching users how to use the tools.
✅ Refine the products further by building more tools.

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That's all for now!

If you enjoyed this post, what are you waiting for?

- LIKE and comment what you think about it.
- REPOST so that everyone can learn how to build flexible systems.
- BOOKMARK because you’d want to keep revisiting it for inspiration.
- Follow me for more posts like this where I cover practice software design tips

P.S. This post is based on the details available about Notion’s Data Model on their engineering blog.

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[David Ho @_david_ho_]

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[Emmanuel @elongeau]

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[Emmanuel @elongeau]

@ShirleyAlmCh il faut leur faire lire tes tweets, ça les détendra

[Emmanuel @elongeau]

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[Antoine Copra @Cobra_FX_]

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