Recently I had two epiphanies in the tooling I use. The first one happened as I was tired of my development environment being too slow when I was developing on Windows. I have a very powerful Mac Book Pro with a lot of RAM and an SSD hard disk, I did not spare any money on my main working tool.
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In his book, The Goal, Eliyahu M. Goldratt presents a way to optimize a plant using his Theory of Constraints. This book lays out the concepts that later will inspire the agile methodologies, which is applying the Theory of Constraints to the development of software. The book The Phoenix Project relates the concepts explained in The Goal with IT and software development.
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In my last post post I introduced different alternatives to simplify the creation of RPA bots. In this post I dig deeper into one of those approaches: rule-based automation. Rule-based automations are based on triggers and actions, and are simple and linear. However, they can be user to support very interesting automations.
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Robotic Processing Automation (RPA) is a technique used by companies to automate tasks that normally would be completed by employees. These robots are usually called “bots”. There are several RPA technology providers, like Zapier, that enable small companies use this technology in a simple way with lots of apps that offer APIs to access their services.
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