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Off topic but the name, Flow, will get confusing fast. Flow is already used by several projects including Facebook's Flow, a direct competitor to Microsoft Typscript. Meanwhile FlowType.js helps with typography. Not to be confused with Flowjs, which is for HTML5 file transfer. This is probably going to end up in a search ranking dance off with whoever has the deepest pockets winning. https://flowtype.org http://simpl…
Off topic but the name, Flow, will get confusing fast. Flow is already used by several projects including Facebook's Flow, a direct competitor to Microsoft Typscript. Meanwhile FlowType.js helps with typography. Not to be confused with Flowjs, which is for HTML5 file transfer. This is probably going to end up in a search ranking dance off with whoever has the deepest pockets winning. https://flowtype.org http://simpl…
So only confusing to JS devs
That was really just first three things that came to mind as I know that Typescript competes with Flow (the open source project started by Facebook).
Other non-javascript products with the same name include project and workflow management software.
My point was more about how larger organisations usually win when they take a common or functional name for their products.
Microsoft has a long history of trademarking generic terms. I mean if I use the phrase "an SQL database server" or "a windowing operating system" which products do you think of?
In the case of "Flow" it's an overloaded product name and whichever entry comes up first in Google's search results will probably end up 'owning' the name. Currently for my results it's Microsoft.
Side note - Is anyone else's CPU going mad on that page? Chrome PC just goes flat out sitting on that page. UPDATE: it's my adblocker. It blocks a part of the page and the javascript tries to constantly load it if it fails, resulting in about 1000 errors/second in the console :)
This might explain a long running mystery I've had when I have loooots of tabs open. But then, how to find the tab that's stuck in that process? (In FF in my case.)
I recommend digging into the available actions, this looks more flexible than anything else in this space (eg IFTTT, Zapier). There's control flow (if and while), and some actions aren't tied to any service: there's a "Recurrence" action that allows to trigger actions at specific intervals, an "HTTP" action that can send a request with any URL+method+headers+body+auth, there's a "Delay" action, FTP and SMTP output ac…
You can even write your own code to extend things in Python and JS.
Seems like IFTTT will end up being a niche for IoT-specific integrations while this will be used for enterprise integration. What is the value here for Microsoft when you can create integrations between only competitors like Google services?
>What is the value here for Microsoft when you can create integrations between only competitors like Google services? https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/
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shit, my company had a "when a user is created or deleted in AD, do X" type of functionality, we could save so much freaking money money its ridiculous. Im still. planning on sitting down and building it.
They have that. Check out Quest/Dell/whatever ActiveRoles and other Identity Management type competitors. I think any big enterprise vendor has an offering. The problem with a lot of them is the price-they're pretty spicy. But they are going after enterprise players with deep pockets.
I just want to avoid paying the stupid premium on stuff like the enterprise version of Slack just for AD integration.
I recommend digging into the available actions, this looks more flexible than anything else in this space (eg IFTTT, Zapier). There's control flow (if and while), and some actions aren't tied to any service: there's a "Recurrence" action that allows to trigger actions at specific intervals, an "HTTP" action that can send a request with any URL+method+headers+body+auth, there's a "Delay" action, FTP and SMTP output ac…
Not sure if you've looked at Zapier recently, but they've added all sorts of functionality: multi-step zaps, filtering + logic You can even write your own code to extend things in Python and JS.
This seems like a IFTTT + pipes mashup? With multiple steps, simple logic blocks, and enterprise integration.