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Deep dive today with internal IT team @okta about our internal apps, data warehouse and integration stack. As an engineer I built PeopleSoft integration tech in 2000. This area has always interested me:
The industry has progressed! 
Here in 2020 nearly all apps have good APIs. Some even have complete integration platforms built-in ( @salesforce, @workday). A lot of the PeopleSoft lessons made it into Workday. Team calls out @Stripe as the âbest apiâ in our environment.
Here in 2020 nearly all apps have good APIs. Some even have complete integration platforms built-in ( @salesforce, @workday). A lot of the PeopleSoft lessons made it into Workday. Team calls out @Stripe as the âbest apiâ in our environment.
Even so, thereâs work to do. One complaint is that the ability to do webhooks/callbacks is not common among apps leading to excessive âpollingâ.
âSome things never change!â I was surprised to find out:
Just like in 2000, no integration vendor does it all. Different vendors required for row based/event driven integrations vs batch oriented/set based. Nobody has nailed both.
Just like in 2000, no integration vendor does it all. Different vendors required for row based/event driven integrations vs batch oriented/set based. Nobody has nailed both.
Just like in 2000 some apps still allow direct database access via SQL ( @netsuite):
Just like in 2000, some of the integrations are EDI (even though we were sure that was ABOUT TO DIE IN 2000)
Just like in 2000, some of the integrations are EDI (even though we were sure that was ABOUT TO DIE IN 2000)
Interesting that we moved to @snowflake for 3 reasons. 1> it was cheaper 2> easy to burst capacity (thank you @aws cloud) 3> easier to get data in and out and share data internally between groups
Interesting that @okta is getting to a size and scale that our internal use of tools and technology is indicative of the overall market!
