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Make, Zapier: Bubble?
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Make, Zapier: Bubble?

No-code solutions lean on integration adhesives. Is it a healthy dependency? Or one to be concerned about?

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Bill french
Aug 30, 2023
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Years ago, I was asked to unwind a deep dependency on Zapier. It was a mess. There were 250 Zaps, each doing things that overlapped in several cases, and the company had no documentation about them. The naming of the Zaps was unhelpful, and more than 50% (it was thought) had some business logic embedded in them. It turned out that more than 200 had busi…

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