Integration is boring. And also inevitable. But I won’t be writing about enterprise integration patterns. Instead, I’ll explain how to create an app for integration with Zapier.
What is Zapier? It is a service that allows you tо connect two (or more) otherwise unconnected services via their APIs (or protocols). You can do stuff like: “Create a Trello task from an Evernote note”; “publish new RSS items to Facebook”; “append new emails to a spreadsheet”; “post approaching calendar meeting to Slack”; “Save big email attachments to Dropbox”; “tweet all instagrams above a certain likes threshold”; and so on. In fact, it looks to cover mostly the same use cases as another famous service that I really like – IFTTT (if this then that), with my favorite use-case being, “Get a notification when the international space station passes over your house.” And all of those interactions can be configured via a UI. https://goo.gl/fhhv1t #DataIntegration #ML
