Varun Rau(@varunrau):an aspect of notion's engineering culture that i appreciate is that we like to pay homage to great software by translating those ideas into the product in a way that everyone, not just software engineers, can use and appreciate like databases, transclusions, etc. this one is inspired by tools used by devops and infrastructure engineers: terraform/pulumi. though it may sound unlikely, it turns out a lot of the concepts invented to manage servers apply to managing a notion workspace!

2026.07.23 19:52

an aspect of notion's engineering culture that i appreciate is that we like to pay homage to great software by translating those ideas into the product in a way that everyone, not just software engineers, can use and appreciate like databases, transclusions, etc. this one is inspired by tools used by devops and infrastructure engineers: terraform/pulumi. though it may sound unlikely, it turns out a lot of the concepts invented to manage servers apply to managing a notion workspace!