Comments on post “Zapier Developer Platform”
Bryan Helmig
@bryanhelmig · CTO/co-founder of Zapier.com
Building the CLI and the backend that powers it was a lot of fun. I want to write up a technical post on how it works, but the gist of it is:
* Node.js CLI that builds deployable zips
* AWS Lambda behind the scenes running the code
* A very "RPC-like" interface that calls into the exported schema
* It interops automatically with 750+ apps via our workflow editor
Previously you could do similar things via our browser based GUI - but surprise surprise - engineers don't really like working in the browser! :-P
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