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I can't believe I got all the way to the bottom without seeing a mention of integromat. As an automation addict (and a no longer coding coder) this is what you should be using. Prices range from free to cheap and I'm sure it does 99.9% of what "tines" does
This is an advertisement. That said, I never played with Yahoo Pipes. It looks like Alteryx I think?
No pipes is more like node red. Alteryx is fairly unique given the heavy excel focus I guess visually they look the same in that it’s flowchart building blocks
I have a tab delimited file that I bring into Excel. I need to review it on it a regular basis for cybersecurity reasons. I load the file into Excel and then use the Excel Filters feature to get pulldown menus for each column. I then review the columns and filter for ports, user-agents, IPs, etc. Pretty typical stuff. Anyone know how to automate the above that would basically just spit out files based on how I’m manu…
I read it happily waiting for the aha moment until the very end, where I realized that it was just an adpost for a new ifttt/transform tool with a glaze of "low code is the future" (All that for just $30k/year)
These comments all present valid reasons why low-code is usually a nightmare. To me, the most egregious offender is vendor lock-in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendor_lock-in . It's all fine and dandy if you found a low-code solution that works for you, as long as you're comfortable paying a premium to pigeon hole yourself with that solution for the unforeseeable future, with no guarantees that you won't get royall…
Vendor lock-in is not always a problem. Imagine that you have a situation where you can either throw one engineer at it to create a custom solution or buy an existing one that locks you into their service offering? What would you choose? It is not always clear-cut, but it is better to buy simply because employees are not permanent in most cases. After they leave, there will be zero support.
I actually had to use this about a year ago to build a SOAR system at a Fortune 500 company. The Tines team was pretty responsive to questions and requests for help, and they even sent me a nice box of swag. The box arrived after I resigned from that job, however. No matter how many niceties you put on flow-based programming, the tools I had to use (all serverless) were the wrong ones for the job, and management was…
I once had to implement SOAR in a “no code” automation solution (it was not Tines), and it was terrible. There were a lot of connectors and transformers, but almost all of them had some weird quirks that made them hard to use effectively. Coming from an “all code” background I was pulling my hair out trying to troubleshoot everything. The project was sufficiently onerous that I actually left my job over it.
Tines is completely different - we don't rely on any prebuilt integrations - similar to postman, if you have a curl command then you can paste it into Tines, and the response is simply the json from the API you're hitting - makes it a million times easier to do exactly what you want. You can then use that response in the next action. If the API is terrible (it frequently is) we've a ton of templates to help get the relevant data, and a community with experience connecting to most tools.
Would love to talk about the challenges and see if anything we're doing (or could do) which would have made it easier? I hope you're in a better job now anyway!
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No pipes is more like node red. Alteryx is fairly unique given the heavy excel focus I guess visually they look the same in that it’s flowchart building blocks
There are a number of other (generally much cheaper) visual data transformation tools competing with Alteryx. For example: Easy Data Transform, Easy Morph and Knime.
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At least for $30,000 per year you know they are also taking you for a ride, not just locking you in. I’d personally rather hire an assistant than pay $3,000 per year to have my lights turn off when I’m on a call. Can you even imagine putting a price of $3000 per automation on a glorified IFTT? It doesn’t matter how much better it is.
Yes if it saves you paying cybersec salary for a watch, cut, and paste alert jockey.
I can't believe I got all the way to the bottom without seeing a mention of integromat. As an automation addict (and a no longer coding coder) this is what you should be using. Prices range from free to cheap and I'm sure it does 99.9% of what "tines" does
I don't know if you are connected to Integromat or not but that's a smooth way to influence me to google it :)