Standing Up Your Own Notify.gov
A high-level primer that explains what it takes to stand up and operate an open-source, one-way government notification service for sending text messages and emails.
This resource outlines the core components of a notifications service, including an API for sending messages and an admin interface for managing users and communications, and explains how the codebase can be adapted for shared or single-agency use.
It describes the technical prerequisites (cloud infrastructure, messaging and email services, data stores, logging, and security controls), recommended delivery practices (version control, CI/CD, infrastructure as code), and the multidisciplinary team skills needed to build, operate, and maintain the service. The guide also points teams to technical documentation and repositories for deeper implementation details and notes that the API can be used standalone to add messaging to existing systems.
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