Notes from building Flomation
How the product works, what we decided and why, and the practices behind automating work that people are still doing by hand.
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LATESTHow to Keep Your Engineering Team Updated Automatically Without Manual Status Messages
Engineering teams lose significant time to manual status updates, check-ins, and communication overhead. By automating notifications for commits, merges, releases, and repository activity, teams can stay aligned without interrupting the work that matters.
How to Improve Your Code Review Process and Never Miss a Pull Request Again
Picture this: a developer on your team opens a pull request on a Monday morning. It sits untouched for three days. By Thursday, it has merge conflicts. By Friday, the feature it was supposed to unblock is delayed and the sprint goal is at risk.
Workflows. Unleashed: Why We Built Flomation
Every team has workflows they wish they could automate. We built the platform that makes it effortless.
Version Everything: Flow Revisions and Environment Deployments
Part 9 of our Workflows Unleashed series. This week: why "which version was running when it broke?" should never be an unanswerable question.
Trigger on Anything: 10 Ways to Start a Flomation Flow
Part 5 of our Workflows Unleashed series. This week: because a flow without a trigger is just a diagram.
Start Building: Everything Flomation, in One Place
Part 10 of our Workflows Unleashed series. This week: the wrap-up - and an invitation.
Secrets, Secured: How Flomation Handles Your Credentials
Part 6 of our Workflows Unleashed series. This week: encryption, environments, and why "it's probably fine" isn't a security policy.
Run Anywhere: SaaS, On-Premise, or Both
Part 7 of our Workflows Unleashed series. This week: why the best infrastructure decision is the one you can change later.
Errors Handled, Gracefully: Building Resilient Flows
Part 8 of our Workflows Unleashed series. This week: why your automation should recover, not just report.
Drag. Drop. Deploy: Inside Flomation's Visual Flow Editor
Part 2 of our Workflows Unleashed series. This week: how we built an editor that's visual without being simplistic.
Connect Everything: 80+ Actions, One Platform
Part 3 of our Workflows Unleashed series. This week: why Flomation's actions aren't just HTTP wrappers with a logo.
Any Database. Any Query: Native Data Connectors in Flomation
Part 4 of our Workflows Unleashed series. This week: why every database dialect deserves its own action.
Start with one workflow
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