Notion 3.0: AI Agents Take Over Busywork

2025-09-23
Notion 3.0: AI Agents Take Over Busywork

Notion 3.0 has launched with AI Agents, capable of performing any task a human can within Notion. These agents automate busywork, creating documents, databases, and reports. Unlike generic chatbots, Notion AI Agents understand your workflow and take context-aware actions. Personalization options let you customize your agent's behavior and instructions. Future updates will include custom agents for team-wide automation. This release also includes highly requested features like database row permissions and new AI connectors.

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Notion's Seamless Database Cluster Expansion: Horizontally Scaling from 32 to 96 Databases

2025-02-28
Notion's Seamless Database Cluster Expansion: Horizontally Scaling from 32 to 96 Databases

To handle rapid user growth, Notion horizontally scaled its database cluster from 32 to 96 databases. The post details the process, including choosing a data migration strategy, horizontally sharding both the databases and the connection pool (PgBouncer), data replication and validation, and the final seamless switchover. Through careful planning and execution, Notion successfully expanded its database cluster, increasing capacity and performance without any downtime, leaving ample room for future growth.

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