Category: Tech

Product updates and thoughts from the team behind Transposit

Taylor Barnett · Jun 1st, 2021

Creating Webhooks in ServiceNow

How to automate sending data from ServiceNow with Business Rules

Taylor Barnett · May 17th, 2021

Understanding the Roots of Our Cloud Complexity

How AWS and cloud computing shifted the complexity of our infrastructure

Taylor Barnett · Apr 21st, 2021

Leveraging Consistency for Safer GitOps Practices

Transposit provides a safety net for organizations adopting GitOps processes

Dan Illson, Sales Engineer · Jan 21st, 2021

Upleveled Alerting With Transposit + PagerDuty

Transposit's PagerDuty integration turns alerts into action with codified process

Jessica Abelson · Jan 11th, 2021

The Importance of Bi-Directional Incident Response Integrations

Webhooks and APIs on their own are not enough

Taylor Barnett · Nov 2nd, 2020

DevOps Spectrum of Automation: Artificial Intelligence

What is the right direction forward with AI systems in operations

Taylor Barnett · Aug 4th, 2020

Human-in-the-Loop Incident Response

A deeper look at human-in-the-loop automation in incident response with real life examples

Taylor Barnett · Jul 20th, 2020

DevOps Spectrum of Automation: Human-in-the-Loop

Why humans are crucial to automation

Taylor Barnett · Jul 8th, 2020

DevOps Spectrum of Automation: Runbooks

How runbooks can be a vehicle for automation

Taylor Barnett · May 22nd, 2020

DevOps Spectrum of Automation: Orchestration

How to orchestrate complex systems with automation

Taylor Barnett · May 12th, 2020

DevOps Spectrum of Automation: Scripts

A look at our longtime, trusted friend in the spectrum of automation

Taylor Barnett · May 1st, 2020

Documentation as a Path to DevOps Automation

How documentation benefits your organization’s move towards automation

Taylor Barnett · Apr 2nd, 2020

Rewarding Documentation in DevOps

Why your DevOps practice should include documentation metrics

Taylor Barnett · Feb 26th, 2020

Writing Runbook Documentation When You’re An SRE

Tips and tricks for writing effective runbook documentation when you aren’t a technical writer

Taylor Barnett · Jan 30th, 2020

SSH to EC2 instances via AWS Lambda

From AWS Lambda, SSH into your EC2 instances and run commands.

Dan Moore · Dec 18th, 2019

Query your CloudWatch logs from Athena

Push your logs from Amazon CloudWatch to S3 so that you can query them with Athena.

Dan Moore · Dec 13th, 2019

Using extensions to support pagination in OpenAPI

The second of a multi part series based on my talk from the API Specifications Conference

Morad Ankri · Dec 10th, 2019

Ask, approve and act on AWS infrastructure within Slack

Change an EC2 instance type from within Slack after getting approval.

Dan Moore · Nov 25th, 2019

Easier On-call Overrides

How to make the process of scheduling an override on PagerDuty more efficient, encouraged, and documented

Taylor Barnett · Nov 20th, 2019

Human-in-the-loop workflow automation

The power of automation is increased by bringing humans into the loop.

Tina Huang, Founder and CTO · Nov 19th, 2019

Syncing up your monitoring with new hosts

Sync up your monitoring service with a list of hosts from Amazon Route53.

Dan Moore · Nov 15th, 2019

What makes a good runbook?

What are the common attributes of a good runbook?

Dan Moore · Nov 14th, 2019

The power of checklists

Checklists and runbooks can make your life easier.

Dan Moore · Nov 8th, 2019

Versioning your Transposit application

Using versions in your application allows you to provide a stable execution environment for users of your application.

Dan Moore · Nov 4th, 2019

AWS APIs and Extending Style in OpenAPI

A multi part series on my talk from the API Specifications Conference

Morad Ankri · Oct 30th, 2019

Hiding complexity with Slack integrations

Slack integrations make it easy to hide complexity.

Dan Moore · Oct 23rd, 2019

AWS Regions API

AWS drives everything via API. Why don't they have a simple list of regions and endpoints?

Dan Moore · Oct 21st, 2019

Enriching CloudTrail logs

Enriching CloudTrail logs can help make your AWS environment more secure and understandable.

Dan Moore · Oct 17th, 2019

How to use DynamoDB with Transposit

DynamoDB is a powerful data store for your Transposit application.

Dan Moore · Oct 11th, 2019

Using AWS Lambda with Transposit

AWS Lambda functions are a powerful way to augment Transposit applications.

Dan Moore · Oct 7th, 2019

Using Athena To Process CSV Files

With Athena, you can easily process large CSV files in Transposit.

Dan Moore · Oct 4th, 2019

Building a Simple Microsoft Teams Command for GitHub

Copy files between GitHub repositories without ever leaving your Microsoft Teams channel.

Dan Moore · Sep 26th, 2019

Using DynamoDB to track changes to DynamoDB

Create a table with running diffs for DynamoDB

Dan Moore · Sep 24th, 2019

Using a Slack app as a communication portal between different workspaces

Slack shared channels build a bridge between two workspaces, but what about the bridges between app developers and their users? Learn how to support your app users via chat.

Griffin Solot-Kehl · Sep 17th, 2019

Creating an API from HTML: Scraping Amazon Reviews into Google Sheets

When there’s no API and text is all we have, never fear! Apify can turn any site into an API and Transposit lets you plug it into the other systems you care about

Griffin Solot-Kehl · Sep 9th, 2019

Using Slack, AWS, and GitHub to find my commits

Where are they?!

Nina Yang · Sep 6th, 2019

Running AWS Athena queries from Slack

How can you query Athena from within Slack?

Dan Moore · Sep 5th, 2019

GitHub file transfer within Slack

How can you transfer files between repos from the comfort of your Slack client?

Dan Moore · Sep 4th, 2019

Chatting up CloudWatch

Building a conversational Slack bot I use all the time with Dialogflow

Jordan Place · Aug 29th, 2019

How is Transposit different than IFTTT?

How is Transposit different than other low/no code API integration tools like IFTTT or Zapier?

Dan Moore · Aug 27th, 2019

Auto-update GitHub submodules

Update a GitHub repository submodule to the most recent SHA, as a webhook.

Tina Huang, Founder and CTO · Aug 23rd, 2019

Getting Started with AWS Athena

Use Transposit to build an app that makes it easy to transform logs into a format Athena can understand, and reduce the time to set up Athena from hours to minutes.

Yoko Li · Aug 22nd, 2019

Transposit internship: IoT button prototype

My intern project this summer was to build an IoT button that can invoke APIs. It was the fullest stack: hardware, frontend, backend, infra.

Jules Becker · Aug 20th, 2019

Automating away my lunch choices with Transposit

I built an AI to answer the most important question of our times: where should I go to lunch?

Jules Becker · Aug 19th, 2019

Transposit internship: profile pages prototype

My intern project this summer was to build a prototype of developer profile pages that showcase the apps a developer has built.

Helen Cho · Aug 13th, 2019

Customizing CircleCI notifications in Slack

@mention me in Slack when I break the build. Why is that so hard to do?

Nina Yang · Aug 6th, 2019

SQL for APIs: limiting the filter or filtering the limit?

A quick dive into a SQL query and the nuances of filters and limits.

Morad Ankri · Jul 30th, 2019

New Transposit feature: built-in k/v store

The application stash gives your apps a lightweight, persistent key-value store.

Tuan Nguyen · Jul 30th, 2019

Exploring new user notifications in Slack

I have an army of Slackbots behind me, just try and stop me!

Griffin Solot-Kehl · Jul 22nd, 2019

PrideBot is a reminder that pride is both worldwide and never-ending 🏳️‍🌈

Just one text will help you find a parade. Or a festival. Or a carnival. Or a cruise. Whatever floats your boat.

Griffin Solot-Kehl · Jun 28th, 2019

New Transposit feature: user settings

Newly added user settings lets you build even more customizable apps, bots, and webhooks. The redesigned user configuration page prompts users to authenticate data connections and adds fields for settings you define–Jira project, Slack channel, AWS ECS cluster.

Tina Huang, Founder and CTO · Jun 18th, 2019

Automating Collection of Troubleshooting Data with Triggers

Honeycomb triggers enable you to be notified when specific things happen in your system. But when you get that alert, what do you do?

Guest post: Molly Stamos, Honeycomb.io · Jun 6th, 2019

Costco debt collection

Collecting debts from friends by using API composition.

Puya Moayer · Jun 5th, 2019

Embracing the SaaS unbundleverse

In an unbundled world, the monopolies will be horizontal, aggregating similar kinds of interactions across applications.

Adam Leventhal · May 15th, 2019

Superglue for gaps in your AWS infrastructure

I wished for a bit more “glue” within the AWS system itself, and between AWS and services. Here's how we solved it.

Yoko Li · May 7th, 2019

Perfect products don't need APIs (the rest do)

APIs are the escape hatch, the panacea for any complaint, the answer for the long tail of features you'll never ever get to.

Adam Leventhal · Apr 12th, 2019

Hypebot is the hype man who never lets me down

It’s the middle of our company hackweek, my project isn't working, and there's no emoji symbol for dwarf.

Sarah Brown · Mar 19th, 2019

The life-changing magic of migrating GitHub repositories with Transposit

I'm not a hoarder. I need all these repositories, I swear!

Nina Yang · Mar 15th, 2019

SQL order from API chaos

It’s hard to believe there’s not a good solution to the problem of API composition. There are so many platforms to help you find APIs, make that initial connection, and even call a single API.

Tina Huang, Founder and CTO · Mar 7th, 2019

GraalVM: the holy graal of polyglot JVM?

Transposit is built on a Java backend uses Nashorn. We wanted to support ES6 syntax, so we investigated alternatives.

Sarah Brown · Jan 2nd, 2019

Using Transposit to automate our alpha user onboarding (part 2)

In a matter of hours (not the days or weeks it might have required prior to Transposit) we built an application to simplify our process.

Tina Huang, Founder and CTO · Oct 16th, 2018

Using Transposit to automate our alpha user onboarding

The process to add new alpha users to our whitelist was manual, involving a lot of repetitive tedium with opportunities for error. Here's how we automated Transposit itself.

Tina Huang, Founder and CTO · Oct 8th, 2018

The Mysterious Case of the Bad Gateway (502)

With very few clues to hand, I began an investigation to chase down navigation failures with API requests occasionally returning HTTP 502 Bad Gateway.

Jordan Place · Sep 14th, 2018

Automation through the eyes of an engineer

A single button to push every day is a drastic improvement over a 5-step process that needs babysitting.

Tina Huang, Founder and CTO · Jan 3rd, 2018

The short life of DynamoDB at Transposit

We were focused on building a rudimentary prototype. I wondered: is this the database we want for the foreseeable future?

Jordan Place · Dec 14th, 2017

The Story of an Application

This application’s tale begins before a single line of code is written. It is based on the true story of a dog walker and his developer friend. It begins with a dog walker with a job to be done, a dog walker who wants to give flexibility to his clients.

Tina Huang, Founder and CTO · Jul 13th, 2017