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Bots, integrations, internal services, process automation, and workflows.
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16 articles
2026-09-22
I occasionally catch myself thinking “what if someone has already done this?” — after I’ve just written another piece of code. With confgraph, my AI secretary for video conferences, I decided not to …
2026-09-22
After the move to Hugo the site turned from a heavy, constantly crashing thing into a light and fast static archive — and it became clear this wouldn’t be the end of it. If the site is now fast and doesn’t need a …
2026-09-22
It is commonly assumed that an engineer’s work begins where the code appears. In practice it’s the opposite: the most expensive part of the work happens before the first line is written. Recently there was …
2026-09-22
Server metrics and logs don’t show everything. If an error occurred in the user’s browser or in a rare code path, the server may not log anything and the user may simply close the page. For such cases there …
2026-09-22
n8n workflows using language models carry two types of risks. On the input side, a user can send personal data, an API key, or an attempt to “jailbreak” the model’s instructions. On the output side the …
2026-09-22
When a single n8n process can no longer handle the number of executions, it is scaled: workflow executions are offloaded to separate worker processes, webhook reception to separate processes, and user code to isolated …
2026-09-22
Cloud automation services — Zapier, Make, Albato — and their comparison with n8n are covered in the third part of the series. This article is about something else: which platforms you can deploy on your own server …
2026-09-22
FusionAuth — an authentication and user management server that developers built around an API: anything you can do in the admin panel can be done via REST API. You can host it on your own servers for free or use the …
2026-09-22
Xano — a cloud platform for building backends without coding. Database tables and API logic are assembled in a visual editor: input parameters, database queries, conditions, loops, calls to external services. Each such …
2026-09-22
Appwrite — an open backend platform that was originally designed for installation on your own server. The code is released under the BSD-3-Clause license. There is also a cloud version, Appwrite Cloud, but the primary …
2026-09-22
Firebase — Google’s platform for mobile and web applications. Unlike Supabase, it is built on document databases and runs entirely in Google Cloud infrastructure: the source code is closed, and you cannot install …
2026-09-22
Supabase — a backend platform based on PostgreSQL. It combines a database, an automatically generated REST API, user sign-up and sign-in, file storage, server functions, and change subscriptions. The code is released …
2026-09-22
While automation ties together ready-made services — CRM, email, messenger, spreadsheets — data is stored inside those services. When a custom application, a client personal account or an internal accounting system …
2026-09-22
n8n — not the only visual automation platform. Some services work only in the cloud and charge per action, others are installed on your own server, and some are aimed at developers or data processing. Below are the main …
2026-09-22
n8n can be used in two ways: subscribe to the developers’ cloud service n8n Cloud or install the platform on your own server. Workflows and nodes are the same in both cases; what differs are the price, …
2026-09-22
Routine operations — moving leads from a website into a CRM, notifying employees, daily reports, publishing news in channels — take time and cause errors. Such chains can be automated without developing a separate …