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Re: Show HN: Free hosted open-source alternative to Zapier/Airflow

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Post by zacwest »

lewisjoe wrote: post #21
sixhobbits wrote: post #14

I've used Zapier a fair amount and I wrote an article about Airflow so I have a fairly good understanding of that too. I would never really consider them alternatives though? To me Zapier is a low/no code tool that offers a bazillion integrations and Airflow is a workflow orchestration tool. So comparing to both of them confuses me and I guess choosing one would give you a more nieche audience but one that you can co…

Very true. We really should stop overloading the term Workflow in software. As of now these are the broad categories that abuse the term workflow. 1. State Machines For example in Jira a bug/ticket moves through different states to reach a final stage. This type of state-machines can be found in a lot of different softwares - most CMS/bug-trackers/CRMs where the entity is different (document/bug/lead). The motive of…

I'd like you to listen to this file, which is your first 'headline' read by `say`: https://www.dropbox.com/s/fanpqs8lv2d9nvl/say.m4a?dl=0 Now imagine yourself in the shoes of a vision-impaired person relying on a technology like VoiceOver. Do you understand how unbelievably frustrating that is?

Re: Show HN: Free hosted open-source alternative to Zapier/Airflow

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Post by newcrobuzon »

newcrobuzon wrote: post #28
newcrobuzon wrote: post #6

Wow, this has blown up a bit, so I have added few more servers (now two servers on the West coast and two in Europe), but ultimately I think there is a limit cap of 100 Titanoboa instances in each geography in parallel. So if we break that level please don't be mad if you don't get your instance :) Instead give me a star on github and come back later :) Cheers Miro

Ok, I have just reached 100 concurrent containers in Europe, which is max at this stage and I don't think I can change the aws limit on the fly (will check though) so I might start killing the oldest instances. Apologies for inconvenience folks, but I am sure people rarely play with each instance for the whole 3 hours anyway at this stage. Honestly did not expect this kind of "public beta" rollout, still surprised ho…

Approaching 100 containers cap in US, so if something does not work, dont be mad :)

Re: Show HN: Free hosted open-source alternative to Zapier/Airflow

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Post by lewisjoe »

zacwest wrote: post #31
lewisjoe wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Very true. We really should stop overloading the term Workflow in software. As of now these are the broad categories that abuse the term workflow. 1. State Machines For example in Jira a bug/ticket moves through different states to reach a final stage. This type of state-machines can be found in a lot of different softwares - most CMS/bug-trackers/CRMs where the entity is different (document/bug/lead). The motive of…

I'd like you to listen to this file, which is your first 'headline' read by `say`: https://www.dropbox.com/s/fanpqs8lv2d9nvl/say.m4a?dl=0 Now imagine yourself in the shoes of a vision-impaired person relying on a technology like VoiceOver. Do you understand how unbelievably frustrating that is?

Thanks for pointing this out. Never knew this would break screen readers. Sorry. I'm changing the font right now.

Re: Show HN: Free hosted open-source alternative to Zapier/Airflow

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Post by newcrobuzon »

PascalW wrote: post #27

Nice work! How does it compare to n8n? [0] n8n is the closest OSS alternative to Zapier I've seen so far. [0] https://n8n.io/

A bit similar, but on JVM. The main focus of Titanoboa is however as follows:

- make rapid prototyping of new steps possible during runtime, without any need to restart/redeploy

- focus on distributed processing, where in master-less Titanoboa cluster you can have pretty much any number of nodes

Re: Show HN: Free hosted open-source alternative to Zapier/Airflow

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Post by newcrobuzon »

ForHackernews wrote: post #20

How does this compare to Prefect? https://medium.com/the-prefect-blog/why-not-airflow-4cfa4232...

To be honest Prefect just got on my radar last week, so I will need to look at it more closely, I was not aware of them till then.

Obviously this is for JVM, plus I am not sure how Prefect addresses following two points I mainly focus on:

- make rapid prototyping of new steps possible during runtime, without any need to restart/redeploy

- focus on distributed processing, where in master-less Titanoboa cluster you can have pretty much any number of nodes

Re: Show HN: Free hosted open-source alternative to Zapier/Airflow

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Post by X6S1x6Okd1st »

newcrobuzon wrote: post #12
juliend2 wrote: post #10

Very interesting! What library did you use for the SVG powered diagram tool?

I am using D3. AFAIK nobody has used it for worfklow visualization so far: https://www.titanoboa.io/visualizing-workflows.html

Luigi does some workflow visualization with d3

https://luigi.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html

Re: Show HN: Free hosted open-source alternative to Zapier/Airflow

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Post by j45 »

newcrobuzon wrote: post #30
j45 wrote: post #23

Being a JVM friendly tool, it would be great to unlock other JVM syntaxes to allow scripting in any lanugage.. Jython for Python, Quercus for PHP, JRuby for Ruby, etc.

yes, I am considering this and it should not be that hard (also Kotlin, Nashorn javascript...), but at this stage Titanoboa is just a one-man-show - so patience, I might get there ;)

For sure. Being a one man army has it's perks and challenges. I hope this project has a community form around it.

The JVM is more underrated/unknown than it should be in the startup space, tools like what you're making make it far more accessible.

Re: Show HN: Free hosted open-source alternative to Zapier/Airflow

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Post by mrweasel »

sixhobbits wrote: post #14

I've used Zapier a fair amount and I wrote an article about Airflow so I have a fairly good understanding of that too. I would never really consider them alternatives though? To me Zapier is a low/no code tool that offers a bazillion integrations and Airflow is a workflow orchestration tool. So comparing to both of them confuses me and I guess choosing one would give you a more nieche audience but one that you can co…

There's also a problem with describing your product as "an alternative to". I don't know what Zapier and Airflow is, but now I want to find out, which pushes me towards the competition, rather than just explaining what your product does and have me view the competition as the alternative.
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