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Post by bg24 »

zmmmmm wrote: post #55

I really wonder about all these services that eat into the layers of implementation that organisations usually do in house, but at the same time quick form a complex web of lock in that prevents you ever leaving Amazon. It seems to me that these services are very seductive but there are very few cases where it's truly in an organisation's long term interest to adopt them. At best, use them as a quick interim solution…

First, make money and fast. If you have customer, money and growth, you can hire right people to redesign your software.

Re: Amazon AppFlow

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Axsuul wrote: post #87
tjbiddle wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Killer" - No. 90% of the market for Zapier is people who have no technical knowledge. Those people won't be jumping on AWS any time soon. Obviously pulling the 90% out of my ass, but I'm heavy Zapier user for my e-commerce business. I have (Or had - Haven't renewed as e-com has replaced my DevOps income) multiple AWS certs and I'd still much prefer Zapier over this. Especially when you can run custom code on Zapier…

Can I ask what sort of tasks you have setup for your e-commerce business?

- If a new voicemail comes in, see if it's an existing customer and send them an email we'll be in touch if we do - Create new ZenDesk users for any Shopify customer - Send emails when positive product reviews come in asking if they would mind sending a Facebook review - If a negative product review comes in, ask what we can do to make things better - New order comes in: Will create draft emails to all necessary vendors I need to contact, pre-filled with shipping details. - New order comes in: Separate order cost by vendor, grab taxes, grab shipping, grab discounts, put it all in an airtable database and create invoicing and purchase order records to attach it to. - Slack notifications - Pull PDFs from Google drive, parse with DocParser, upload into Xero accounting.

I'm sure there's way more I can do as well. I have to find the balance between automating and just telling an employee to do it But automation leads to less mistakes

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