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Another side effect to take into consideration when offering notifications to customers is the impact on your services if customers action on those notifications.

At a bank I worked at, we enabled salary transaction notifications. Soon we found that because the salary was deposited into everyone's account at the same time from the bank, a large amount of notifications was trying to be sent at the same time which caused a bunch of services to suddenly receive a lot more traffic than usual.



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