Exploring Workato

I recently had the opportunity to do some work with Workato, which bills itself as an integration and automation tool. It’s Ruby based (yay!) and 100% cloud based (as far as the core engine goes). A lot more could be said about the tool but I had several key takeaways.

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Brady Wied
Data and analytics

What makes this all the more interesting is the desire for a shorter feedback loop between analyzing data and making decisions based on that analysis. As the pace of rapid/automated decision making increases, which turns analytics decisions into system integration actions/units of work, solving these problems gets more interesting.

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Simplicity

We all have examples of overly complex infrastructure and techniques (J2EE is one example). I think it’s possible, but not guaranteed, that Kubernetes will suffer similar problems to J2EE.

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Crappy days

“Some days are like that. Even in Australia.” - Judith Viorst, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

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How core to your business is your CI/CD tool?

If you’re like me, you started with CruiseControl as your CI system sometime in the late 2000’s. You probably installed the operating system yourself and maybe even mounted the server in the rack that was running it. Some things have changed since then and some haven’t. One important question to ask is how core to your business, assuming you are in the software business, your CI/CD tool is?

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Pride month

You should be free to be you and have your identity be respected no matter what your profession is, where you were born, or how you think government should be run.

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Code reuse and integration

Integration, whether it’s using DCOM, CORBA, RMI, SOAP, or REST is no different than classic app vertical development. It’s just code reuse on a larger scale with remoting technologies in between the relevant pieces of code.

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