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This is a guest repost by Bryan Helmig, Co-founder & CTO at Zapier, who makes it easy to automate tasks between web apps.
Zapier is a web service that automates data flow between over 500 web apps, including MailChimp, Salesforce, GitHub, Trello and many more.
Imagine building a workflow (or a "Zap" as we call it) that triggers when a user fills out your Typeform form, then automatically creates an event on your Google Calendar, sends a Slack notification and finishes up by adding a row to a Google Sheets spreadsheet. That's Zapier. Building Zaps like this is very easy, even for non-technical users, and is infinitely customizable.
As CTO and co-founder, I built much of the original core system, and today lead the engineering team. I'd like to take you on a journey through our stack, how we built it and how we're still improving it today!
The Teams Behind the Curtains
It takes a lot to make Zapier tick, so we have four distinct teams in engineering:
- The frontend team, which works on the very powerful workflow editor.
- The full stack team, which is cross-functional but focuses on the workflow engine.
- The devops team, which keeps the engine humming.
- The platform team, which helps with QA, and onboards partners to our developer platform.
All told, this involves about 15 engineers (and is growing!).
The Architecture
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