- Three people tell you they want an integration.
They may be describing three different jobs at three different depths for three kinds of specialist. Data engineer setting up nightly ingest of new contract details from CRM into the data warehouse…
- Learning to program without AI is now more important than ever.
AI handed unprecedented technical power in the hands of people who maybe always wanted to use technology to solve problems but they never had the capacity to actually dive in and become technical.…
- Idempotency — what a word.
I'll admit the first time I saw it was in an AI coding session, and it took me a while to figure out the pronunciation, let alone understand how to apply it. An operation is idempotent when running…
- Executives love a good dashboard.
And for good reasons. A good dashboard can show where revenue is leaking, where costs are running away, where things are slowing down, or where they're breaking. But the dashboard is just the tip of…
- "Can we set up this automation? A report gets auto-generated daily, and emailed to two people."
Friday afternoon. Fifteen-minute job, sure, no problem. Then we started asking questions. And discovered: a single report per project. Many projects. Several different forms and report templates.…
- There's an old dev comic.
Manager (requesting a new feature): When a user takes a photo, the app should check whether they are in a national park. Dev: Sure, easy GIS lookup — give me a few hours. Manager: ...and check…
- This is a conversation I'm having sometimes:
User: Let's add an auto-calculated field into this ticket! Me: Sure, but why? User: You see, at the end of the week we export all this data into an Excel spreadsheet and run a custom calculation…
- File Sync. One of the most talked about and underestimated integration patterns.
Here is a little checklist of questions to answer before you start building. What systems are we syncing? Which system is your single source of truth? One time or ongoing? What is the scope of the…
- I used to teach people English.
Today I taught Claude Code how to create and update triggers in Workato recipes via API. My student was eager — often too eager — jumping two lessons ahead and making wrong assumptions. But with…