7 Must-Haves in a Cloud Operations Integration Platform
How integration platforms can empower CloudOps teams to scale IaC practices, expand automation, and streamline processes
Jessica Abelson · Aug 12th, 2021
What DevOps Teams Need in an Integration Platform, Part 3: Flexible Integrations
To keep up with evolving stacks, integration platforms should provide multiple integrations out of the box along with the ability to easily create new ones
Jessica Abelson · Aug 10th, 2021
What DevOps Teams Need in an Integration Platform, Part 2: API Developer Experience
Integration platforms should abstract away API complexity so developers only need to focus on the intent, not on how to do it
Jessica Abelson · Aug 6th, 2021
What DevOps Teams Need in an Integration Platform, Part 1: Customization
Code, low-code, no-code—what's the difference, and does it matter? Absolutely, yes
Jessica Abelson · Aug 3rd, 2021
Digital Transformation and Why Integration Platforms Are on the Rise
The emergence of cloud computing and APIs has fundamentally changed how DevOps teams work, and not all integration platforms are keeping up
Jessica Abelson · Jul 28th, 2021
The Top 6 Identity Concerns of CloudOps Teams
You’ve got humans and machines working together, but who’s doing what and when?
Ed Sawma, VP of Operations & Marketing · Jul 21st, 2021
5 Areas of Complexity to Consider When Using External Integrations
Tips for navigating common external integration issues
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