WEBVTT 1 00:00:10.000 --> 00:00:17.270 Brady Hugins: Hi everyone, joining in. This is Brady Hugans with Mirror Mirror Systems. 2 00:00:17.450 --> 00:00:23.129 Brady Hugins: This is a webinar, it's May 22nd, Friday, at 10.30 a.m. 3 00:00:23.730 --> 00:00:27.010 Brady Hugins: Currently in Phoenix, Arizona, Chandler, actually. 4 00:00:27.690 --> 00:00:30.220 Brady Hugins: It's gorgeous day outside, even for May here. 5 00:00:30.360 --> 00:00:37.420 Brady Hugins: So, I want to invite you to join us today. We're… Going to be… 6 00:00:38.060 --> 00:00:45.829 Brady Hugins: Showcasing day number 4 for engines and automations today for the MirrorMirror Data Sovereignty introduction. 7 00:00:47.150 --> 00:00:56.070 Brady Hugins: So this is part of a… course that is… About 7 modules. 8 00:00:56.600 --> 00:01:00.689 Brady Hugins: and that we're covering all the components of what I've… 9 00:01:01.150 --> 00:01:05.459 Brady Hugins: coined as data sovereignty. Data sovereignty is… 10 00:01:05.930 --> 00:01:23.930 Brady Hugins: The idea of having a technical infrastructure and system for yourselves, that you can see your data, your workflows, your executions, and are able to 11 00:01:24.460 --> 00:01:30.829 Brady Hugins: Either sell your own products, or be able to have your own libraries of information. 12 00:01:32.010 --> 00:01:39.660 Brady Hugins: And that way you can have a more independent infrastructure. There's quite a bit of new… 13 00:01:40.120 --> 00:01:48.080 Brady Hugins: Creators that are producing content, either video or courses, or audio and music. 14 00:01:49.030 --> 00:01:56.140 Brady Hugins: And… There's some great tools that are available for people to start taking in the… 15 00:01:56.560 --> 00:02:08.190 Brady Hugins: the processing of their own information and be able to disseminate and share out with more people more independently. So, independent media is here, independent technology is here. 16 00:02:08.330 --> 00:02:19.460 Brady Hugins: And I work with a number of different tools in our ecosystem that is… anyone can use, and so… and I encourage people to… 17 00:02:19.960 --> 00:02:33.430 Brady Hugins: to do that, as they're looking at solutions for themselves. Most of the people that enjoy this types of information are either creative types, or they're creating some sort of media. 18 00:02:33.940 --> 00:02:36.239 Brady Hugins: Or they're a technology… 19 00:02:36.670 --> 00:02:45.180 Brady Hugins: Person that's looking to have their own infrastructure and tech stack, or they're looking to help host and help other businesses with theirs. 20 00:02:46.760 --> 00:02:49.710 Brady Hugins: Or they're interested in it from, 21 00:02:49.850 --> 00:02:57.460 Brady Hugins: an operational level. There might be some more functional reasons for it, or a different use case, or a particular need for you. 22 00:02:57.690 --> 00:03:07.140 Brady Hugins: Archiving, I like… People that like to have libraries of information and archivists in order to… 23 00:03:08.630 --> 00:03:16.179 Brady Hugins: protect and have some copies of information available out to independent people, I think is really important to do. 24 00:03:17.000 --> 00:03:19.970 Brady Hugins: So with that, we'll get started with the presentation. 25 00:03:24.820 --> 00:03:32.280 Brady Hugins: Okay… So… Great. 26 00:03:34.650 --> 00:03:39.919 Brady Hugins: I'm sure you can see that. On my screen here… 27 00:03:42.650 --> 00:03:48.569 Brady Hugins: So, engines and automation. So, what are engines? What are automations? 28 00:03:49.520 --> 00:03:54.980 Brady Hugins: Right, so… We've covered some components in the past. 29 00:03:55.820 --> 00:04:05.320 Brady Hugins: About building a spine, an infrastructure spine, what that plan looks like, with all the layouts and components, major components? What's the rhythm? 30 00:04:06.480 --> 00:04:11.849 Brady Hugins: How does this thing… how do… does your system work over time, and what's the common rhythm? 31 00:04:13.730 --> 00:04:18.580 Brady Hugins: But today, we're going to be working on and covering… 32 00:04:25.980 --> 00:04:38.790 Brady Hugins: Engine and automation. So… This is the components and the workflows that make everything very quick. 33 00:04:39.690 --> 00:04:40.920 Brady Hugins: So… 34 00:04:42.510 --> 00:04:54.709 Brady Hugins: the… the costs or the challenges of working with engines and automations is they're very execution heavy. If they don't work precisely in the right way, they'll fail in error. 35 00:04:54.990 --> 00:05:00.419 Brady Hugins: But if they do, and everything lines up well… like, think of it like an engine, like a locomotive. 36 00:05:00.590 --> 00:05:06.550 Brady Hugins: Everything needs to line up, and everything needs to coordinate well with each other in order for things to move. 37 00:05:07.580 --> 00:05:14.059 Brady Hugins: That's what a lot of these systems for automators are like. They're like big locomotives, or… 38 00:05:14.390 --> 00:05:17.589 Brady Hugins: A big, warehouse factory. 39 00:05:18.340 --> 00:05:30.710 Brady Hugins: But you're able to take different forms of information from data, put it in one form, and put it in another database. So, these are for ingesting different emails or marketing information. 40 00:05:30.940 --> 00:05:34.229 Brady Hugins: Touching in and sending a message out to someone. 41 00:05:34.340 --> 00:05:38.049 Brady Hugins: That's typically what we use them for, automated workflows and marketing. 42 00:05:39.030 --> 00:05:41.639 Brady Hugins: But this could be for creating reports. 43 00:05:42.250 --> 00:05:44.929 Brady Hugins: It could be for sending out information. 44 00:05:45.050 --> 00:05:51.080 Brady Hugins: It could be creating summaries for yourself, So… 45 00:05:51.580 --> 00:06:01.780 Brady Hugins: There's… when you start getting into the engines and the automations, these are some of the components that work passively for you, and very inexpensive. 46 00:06:02.170 --> 00:06:09.970 Brady Hugins: When you run a query or you're building something, it can be expensive on your time, whether you're using Cloud Code or some sort of other builder. 47 00:06:10.730 --> 00:06:16.820 Brady Hugins: Whereas engines and automators Are meant to be set up and be more passive. 48 00:06:17.020 --> 00:06:21.890 Brady Hugins: Work in the background. Work while you're asynchronously working on other things. 49 00:06:22.320 --> 00:06:25.719 Brady Hugins: So, they're great multipliers over time. 50 00:06:26.130 --> 00:06:28.300 Brady Hugins: And great compounders over time. 51 00:06:31.880 --> 00:06:33.900 Brady Hugins: So, manual work. 52 00:06:35.120 --> 00:06:39.659 Brady Hugins: is a form of silent debt. Whenever there's… 53 00:06:40.120 --> 00:06:42.459 Brady Hugins: Work that needs to be done in the business. 54 00:06:44.380 --> 00:06:48.269 Brady Hugins: This could be creative work, or sales work, marketing. 55 00:06:49.450 --> 00:06:58.429 Brady Hugins: We're creating fatigue in the people that work on the business. That could be the owner-manager, it could be the employees, and… 56 00:06:58.710 --> 00:07:11.240 Brady Hugins: That's all a function of the business, where we want to be able to work and fatigue it, but the… some of these manual processes can be disjointed. They could take more time than is expected. 57 00:07:11.700 --> 00:07:17.390 Brady Hugins: They can… disjoint different… Departments in the organization. 58 00:07:18.520 --> 00:07:21.939 Brady Hugins: So… There's some taxes. 59 00:07:22.400 --> 00:07:26.089 Brady Hugins: That are an issue with different workflows. 60 00:07:26.510 --> 00:07:33.560 Brady Hugins: And you can find that it can be one of the most, if not the most significant factor, because labor… 61 00:07:34.950 --> 00:07:43.850 Brady Hugins: Almost always is the highest cost in an organization, and therefore any taxation of time of… 62 00:07:44.600 --> 00:07:47.779 Brady Hugins: resources and of stress. 63 00:07:48.290 --> 00:07:53.979 Brady Hugins: We should work to reduce In order to harmonize and create more… 64 00:07:54.330 --> 00:07:58.319 Brady Hugins: Synchronism between the people that are working there, so things can be quicker. 65 00:07:59.670 --> 00:08:00.810 Brady Hugins: So… 66 00:08:01.920 --> 00:08:10.569 Brady Hugins: Switching tools, so when you're manually switching tools, when you're going through these workflows, processes, you're switching contexts, so you're maybe moving from one… 67 00:08:10.810 --> 00:08:18.729 Brady Hugins: UI, user interface to another user interface, or you're taking time to take steps between different tasks? 68 00:08:20.740 --> 00:08:28.839 Brady Hugins: And… that is… fatiguing. It can be… It can add in time. 69 00:08:29.420 --> 00:08:30.600 Brady Hugins: Friction. 70 00:08:31.080 --> 00:08:35.420 Brady Hugins: And you don't really see that impacting your team at all. 71 00:08:37.860 --> 00:08:41.549 Brady Hugins: Latency. So, this happens in regards to customers. 72 00:08:42.200 --> 00:08:43.809 Brady Hugins: Latency debt? 73 00:08:45.720 --> 00:08:53.300 Brady Hugins: Customer signs up on a fri- Tuesday, you see it on a Friday, by the time you reach out, the moment's gone. 74 00:08:53.550 --> 00:09:04.639 Brady Hugins: So, there's some momentum that's needed in order to facilitate different sales processes where people get information at the right time, or they get responses in an expected timeline. 75 00:09:04.970 --> 00:09:13.040 Brady Hugins: These could be minutes, it could be hours, it could be days, depending on the… information. 76 00:09:14.370 --> 00:09:16.850 Brady Hugins: Could be automatic, or very quickly, too. 77 00:09:18.380 --> 00:09:25.829 Brady Hugins: So, it's about… Compressing those so that their expectation is more clear, and there's less latency. 78 00:09:27.810 --> 00:09:29.420 Brady Hugins: Consistency? 79 00:09:31.240 --> 00:09:37.220 Brady Hugins: So, if there's manual processing, there's a lack of consistency, because humans… 80 00:09:38.410 --> 00:09:48.240 Brady Hugins: Organically moved from one task to the next. We're not machines, so we should have machine work be done by the machines, and then human work be done by the humans. 81 00:09:50.490 --> 00:09:55.000 Brady Hugins: So, you'll do the welcome email one week, but forget it the next. 82 00:09:56.910 --> 00:10:00.520 Brady Hugins: So customers get a more unified experience over time. 83 00:10:01.320 --> 00:10:08.620 Brady Hugins: Or there's an expected result that's… Is needed, that's more consistent? 84 00:10:09.930 --> 00:10:12.180 Brady Hugins: And then scale ceiling. 85 00:10:13.310 --> 00:10:14.450 Brady Hugins: So… 86 00:10:18.190 --> 00:10:25.889 Brady Hugins: there's… When things aren't monitored, They're not managed. 87 00:10:26.460 --> 00:10:30.540 Brady Hugins: It's a common term in… Management. 88 00:10:30.980 --> 00:10:32.770 Brady Hugins: And business management. 89 00:10:35.040 --> 00:10:40.900 Brady Hugins: And… When things are not measured and… 90 00:10:41.460 --> 00:10:46.170 Brady Hugins: Workflows aren't measured and managed, then they can fail easily. 91 00:10:47.660 --> 00:10:53.319 Brady Hugins: they can fail very easily in most cases. Getting a workflow 92 00:10:53.620 --> 00:10:57.829 Brady Hugins: buttoned up where it's working really well is inherently… 93 00:10:58.350 --> 00:11:07.050 Brady Hugins: Either a somewhat challenging or a very challenging thing, because there are many, many, many factors and parameters that are sometimes outside the… 94 00:11:07.390 --> 00:11:11.029 Brady Hugins: Understanding that's easy for humans to solve. 95 00:11:11.450 --> 00:11:13.169 Brady Hugins: a human… a human… 96 00:11:13.480 --> 00:11:18.910 Brady Hugins: Can go and identify, usually, a best case, or, you know, because they can empathize with someone. 97 00:11:20.060 --> 00:11:21.400 Brady Hugins: Pretty quickly. 98 00:11:21.550 --> 00:11:31.909 Brady Hugins: Whereas a computer, even a really efficient or a really good one, you have to explain the context, and the context of the situation, whereas humans will be able to walk in and infer 99 00:11:32.250 --> 00:11:38.239 Brady Hugins: Oftentimes, what… what is needed, and act accordingly. Much more than they think they do. 100 00:11:39.090 --> 00:11:40.220 Brady Hugins: I've noticed. 101 00:11:42.070 --> 00:11:43.920 Brady Hugins: So, there's costs here. 102 00:11:45.320 --> 00:11:48.420 Brady Hugins: So there's… when you do the manual work. 103 00:11:48.750 --> 00:11:56.520 Brady Hugins: There's costs in different types of our currency, time, money, Trust, possibilities. 104 00:11:58.130 --> 00:12:01.920 Brady Hugins: And then the engine is the trade-up in order to create uniformity. 105 00:12:02.590 --> 00:12:06.849 Brady Hugins: speed, Right workflow for the right context. 106 00:12:09.800 --> 00:12:11.080 Brady Hugins: Proper scaling. 107 00:12:13.980 --> 00:12:21.120 Brady Hugins: So… An engine is basically a package of workflows, or a… 108 00:12:22.430 --> 00:12:27.309 Brady Hugins: Computer engine that's able to take in a certain task and then move it from one… 109 00:12:27.510 --> 00:12:32.429 Brady Hugins: segment to the next. Trigger fires… The steps execute. 110 00:12:32.740 --> 00:12:35.700 Brady Hugins: And then the output lands somewhere useful. 111 00:12:36.610 --> 00:12:44.249 Brady Hugins: but without you in the loop as the owner-operator. Now, you can get reporting, you can get error checking. 112 00:12:44.830 --> 00:12:46.480 Brady Hugins: You can get the outputs. 113 00:12:47.230 --> 00:12:49.680 Brady Hugins: And copies of the inputs? 114 00:12:52.340 --> 00:12:58.089 Brady Hugins: So… As an example, a trigger is a webhook. 115 00:12:58.860 --> 00:13:06.440 Brady Hugins: Firing, so that's someone coming to and interacting with the form, and the form having a webhook that pings. 116 00:13:06.580 --> 00:13:07.530 Brady Hugins: Buyers? 117 00:13:08.970 --> 00:13:15.960 Brady Hugins: Schedule hits… Or a file lands in the folder, so there might be a timed event, or… 118 00:13:16.110 --> 00:13:18.170 Brady Hugins: A file may land somewhere. 119 00:13:19.600 --> 00:13:21.189 Brady Hugins: These are all the triggers. 120 00:13:22.260 --> 00:13:27.620 Brady Hugins: A customer submits a form, It could be multiple triggers as well. 121 00:13:29.110 --> 00:13:30.810 Brady Hugins: Then what are the steps? 122 00:13:31.250 --> 00:13:32.880 Brady Hugins: There's often a lookup. 123 00:13:33.920 --> 00:13:42.660 Brady Hugins: of information, a deciding of where to put it, a writing of where that information goes and why I'm sending. 124 00:13:44.560 --> 00:13:51.129 Brady Hugins: And each one, step by step, is change. Chained steps that replace your hands. 125 00:13:51.750 --> 00:13:56.759 Brady Hugins: So you don't have to be there in order to intake the information, you can have the forum do the work. 126 00:13:57.300 --> 00:13:59.240 Brady Hugins: You can have the engine do the work. 127 00:13:59.820 --> 00:14:04.949 Brady Hugins: And this is basically having computer systems that are able to see these 128 00:14:05.910 --> 00:14:09.989 Brady Hugins: And then send them to the appropriate spots. 129 00:14:10.560 --> 00:14:15.039 Brady Hugins: So, what do we get? We get an out… an output. 130 00:14:15.640 --> 00:14:17.750 Brady Hugins: It's a row to a database. 131 00:14:17.860 --> 00:14:19.639 Brady Hugins: An email is sent. 132 00:14:20.010 --> 00:14:21.690 Brady Hugins: Our file is stored. 133 00:14:23.440 --> 00:14:31.639 Brady Hugins: A message is sent to a channel, And… There's downstream utility in use. 134 00:14:35.510 --> 00:14:41.459 Brady Hugins: So, an operator is able to stack Up a number of workflows. 135 00:14:41.680 --> 00:14:46.370 Brady Hugins: We have more than 300, I think, active at the moment. We'll go into our… 136 00:14:47.800 --> 00:14:53.110 Brady Hugins: Engine here, in a little bit, after we have some more notes. 137 00:14:53.810 --> 00:14:56.799 Brady Hugins: We… we have a number of different workflows. 138 00:14:57.970 --> 00:14:59.080 Brady Hugins: Can show you. 139 00:15:01.200 --> 00:15:06.009 Brady Hugins: So, the best spot is to start with… 140 00:15:06.180 --> 00:15:15.519 Brady Hugins: best needs or highest needs of the organization. These are just examples of some of the top ones that you could put in a stacked flow. 141 00:15:16.850 --> 00:15:22.979 Brady Hugins: These compound on themselves, as you'll find, and run into opportunities with customers. 142 00:15:24.360 --> 00:15:28.130 Brady Hugins: You can even try different things, or test things very quickly. 143 00:15:30.210 --> 00:15:35.250 Brady Hugins: So, an intake engine, so form submission, Row created. 144 00:15:35.930 --> 00:15:39.700 Brady Hugins: Confirmation email is sent, and then you're notified. 145 00:15:40.540 --> 00:15:43.459 Brady Hugins: And the work happens, no matter if you're awake or not. 146 00:15:46.200 --> 00:15:50.819 Brady Hugins: Fulfillment engine. The payment is received, and the product's delivered. 147 00:15:51.210 --> 00:15:54.210 Brady Hugins: It's tagged in the CRM, Proceed is logged. 148 00:15:55.050 --> 00:15:58.080 Brady Hugins: And then they paid it, they got it, without… 149 00:15:58.560 --> 00:16:04.240 Brady Hugins: This is Brady, without a Brady step. So, there's a number of different delivery… 150 00:16:05.360 --> 00:16:10.119 Brady Hugins: the… that are available. Now, these are… Also, part of… 151 00:16:12.160 --> 00:16:17.449 Brady Hugins: what you would consider, like, Shopify or MailChimp as standard. 152 00:16:18.210 --> 00:16:22.649 Brady Hugins: The difference between this is you're building them in the backend. 153 00:16:23.290 --> 00:16:29.810 Brady Hugins: And able to customize anything to your… imaginative. 154 00:16:30.080 --> 00:16:38.570 Brady Hugins: capacity. So the flexibility to be able to see, And be able to create is the… 155 00:16:39.060 --> 00:16:41.350 Brady Hugins: Ability that you… you get in this. 156 00:16:43.060 --> 00:16:46.570 Brady Hugins: Follow-up, engine, and days after event. 157 00:16:47.580 --> 00:16:48.950 Brady Hugins: Check status. 158 00:16:49.390 --> 00:16:54.119 Brady Hugins: And then they send the right next step, depending on what status that they have at that moment. 159 00:16:55.510 --> 00:17:04.730 Brady Hugins: And then you're checking in, and… Caring about them when… they've… 160 00:17:05.900 --> 00:17:08.620 Brady Hugins: Don't know if you necessarily remembered. 161 00:17:10.530 --> 00:17:14.749 Brady Hugins: These can be done by… Tags, tagged group. 162 00:17:15.099 --> 00:17:17.499 Brady Hugins: You can have your different brands or products. 163 00:17:17.800 --> 00:17:23.049 Brady Hugins: That people are associated with, that you can… Connect in with, so… 164 00:17:23.730 --> 00:17:35.069 Brady Hugins: All of these can be based on… Individual product tag, or… type of person reporting engine. 165 00:17:35.310 --> 00:17:36.770 Brady Hugins: A daily poll? 166 00:17:37.490 --> 00:17:43.350 Brady Hugins: This could be sales, it could be leads, could be form ingestions, could be errors. 167 00:17:44.850 --> 00:17:49.970 Brady Hugins: Anything. 168 00:17:50.520 --> 00:17:56.719 Brady Hugins: render… you can render it into a small brief markdown file. 169 00:17:58.250 --> 00:18:00.269 Brady Hugins: And deliver it as you'd like. 170 00:18:00.590 --> 00:18:02.630 Brady Hugins: Via email, if you'd like, to yourself. 171 00:18:04.270 --> 00:18:08.970 Brady Hugins: So you design the dashboard, And… 172 00:18:09.150 --> 00:18:13.760 Brady Hugins: Have it come to you and decide what you want. What's most effective for you. 173 00:18:18.400 --> 00:18:20.779 Brady Hugins: So here's a real intake engine. 174 00:18:21.400 --> 00:18:24.180 Brady Hugins: We'll go and show you, Nation, what that looks like. 175 00:18:26.780 --> 00:18:29.130 Brady Hugins: But commonly, a trigger? 176 00:18:30.900 --> 00:18:33.039 Brady Hugins: This is a f- a form. 177 00:18:33.330 --> 00:18:36.600 Brady Hugins: posts to a webhook URL. 178 00:18:36.890 --> 00:18:38.900 Brady Hugins: With the payload of the information. 179 00:18:40.550 --> 00:18:51.590 Brady Hugins: It's validated, the email format's validated. Honeypot, smoke test filters, these are all tests, tests and security testing, and… 180 00:18:55.720 --> 00:18:56.990 Brady Hugins: data cleanup. 181 00:18:58.990 --> 00:19:01.730 Brady Hugins: Up search, right to your database. 182 00:19:01.970 --> 00:19:08.910 Brady Hugins: New row of new updated existing, so that way that you have a central… form. 183 00:19:09.080 --> 00:19:14.029 Brady Hugins: That your information is… Or row, that your information is… 184 00:19:15.310 --> 00:19:19.909 Brady Hugins: Saved and allocated towards. Tagging? Brand tagging. 185 00:19:20.080 --> 00:19:24.239 Brady Hugins: Could be product tagging, sourcing, tagging, where they come from. 186 00:19:25.590 --> 00:19:29.920 Brady Hugins: So that we can better understand how to interact with this person. 187 00:19:31.110 --> 00:19:36.630 Brady Hugins: Confirm, send the customer the confirmation email. Subject, body, call to action. 188 00:19:37.550 --> 00:19:41.700 Brady Hugins: Any sort of customization or custom messaging? 189 00:19:42.450 --> 00:19:44.509 Brady Hugins: Log, note what happened. 190 00:19:45.360 --> 00:19:48.759 Brady Hugins: Discord paying error cue if failed, and audit trail. 191 00:19:49.980 --> 00:19:57.460 Brady Hugins: So you can see all the various steps that… If someone were to… Take in a form. 192 00:19:58.280 --> 00:20:04.100 Brady Hugins: and then see that. They would go and look and validate all the information just by reading the form. 193 00:20:05.160 --> 00:20:14.659 Brady Hugins: See, humans do a lot of these steps implicitly, but the computer needs to be explained exactly what needs to be done in order to understand where the information goes. 194 00:20:18.570 --> 00:20:19.620 Brady Hugins: Okay… 195 00:20:23.230 --> 00:20:30.569 Brady Hugins: So, there's sometimes some issues with customization, speed, implementation process. 196 00:20:31.310 --> 00:20:35.160 Brady Hugins: what that looks like with vendors and SaaSes. 197 00:20:36.520 --> 00:20:48.240 Brady Hugins: There's quite a bit that's told about what can be done, and there's quite a bit that can be done, but, sometimes the tools and resources aren't always available. 198 00:20:48.570 --> 00:20:50.319 Brady Hugins: or are expensive. 199 00:20:51.520 --> 00:20:52.440 Brady Hugins: So… 200 00:20:56.540 --> 00:21:06.660 Brady Hugins: There's a number of different things that you can buy, and that you have to buy in some cases, like email senders, like a payment processor, these are… 201 00:21:06.800 --> 00:21:14.189 Brady Hugins: Things that you do, probably most likely do need to purchase in some cases, or at least access to. 202 00:21:15.210 --> 00:21:23.949 Brady Hugins: Whereas the… Coordination software, the dashboarding, the workflows, the more custom organization with 203 00:21:24.350 --> 00:21:29.950 Brady Hugins: your own organization. That's definitely the most important data. 204 00:21:30.330 --> 00:21:37.139 Brady Hugins: And the… Needs of orchestration are much higher 205 00:21:38.350 --> 00:21:44.909 Brady Hugins: Than in these individual-use tools that are important, but they're more individual use. 206 00:21:47.130 --> 00:21:47.950 Brady Hugins: Okay. 207 00:21:48.670 --> 00:21:54.710 Brady Hugins: So… What you'll see here, I have a payment, 208 00:21:56.080 --> 00:21:57.850 Brady Hugins: Oh, I'll show you a workflow. 209 00:21:58.800 --> 00:22:01.440 Brady Hugins: And what workflows look like in… 210 00:22:02.140 --> 00:22:10.760 Brady Hugins: My system, and what they would most likely look like in yours, or very similar to, if you had a similar setup. 211 00:22:11.170 --> 00:22:12.470 Brady Hugins: That's mine. 212 00:22:15.220 --> 00:22:23.279 Brady Hugins: So what you'll see in some of these is a visual interface With the visual layout. 213 00:22:23.530 --> 00:22:42.460 Brady Hugins: These are all unique. Every workflow is unique. They're often copies of each other that are used in different places, and then you'll notice that the canonical naming has to do with some of the branding, so I have the branding, as well as the different workflow tools. 214 00:22:44.100 --> 00:22:47.730 Brady Hugins: There's validation steps in order to drop bad inputs. 215 00:22:48.370 --> 00:22:51.820 Brady Hugins: Insert… upserts for loading in data. 216 00:22:53.760 --> 00:22:56.639 Brady Hugins: Spots to close in and loop in the customer. 217 00:22:57.040 --> 00:22:59.389 Brady Hugins: And then error checking, as well. 218 00:23:01.750 --> 00:23:02.930 Brady Hugins: Okay… 219 00:23:11.550 --> 00:23:12.320 Brady Hugins: Okay. 220 00:23:13.700 --> 00:23:19.709 Brady Hugins: So, I will show you… now, this is one of the most complicated, 221 00:23:20.290 --> 00:23:22.720 Brady Hugins: Complex ones. This is a Stripe payment. 222 00:23:27.160 --> 00:23:34.779 Brady Hugins: And… but this is a good example of showing what a workflow would look like, and a complex one would look like. 223 00:23:42.220 --> 00:23:44.310 Brady Hugins: So, it starts here on the left. 224 00:23:46.740 --> 00:23:48.670 Brady Hugins: We have a webhook. 225 00:23:48.960 --> 00:23:51.560 Brady Hugins: Or a striped pavement coming in? 226 00:23:53.030 --> 00:23:55.660 Brady Hugins: A verification or validation step. 227 00:23:56.250 --> 00:23:58.370 Brady Hugins: An extract payment data step. 228 00:23:59.690 --> 00:24:03.290 Brady Hugins: And then a split that goes into… 229 00:24:03.650 --> 00:24:06.570 Brady Hugins: Payment events, and then logging. 230 00:24:07.060 --> 00:24:10.800 Brady Hugins: A number of different logins. These are notifications to Discord. 231 00:24:21.460 --> 00:24:24.400 Brady Hugins: Here's some updates to the unified data profile. 232 00:24:29.200 --> 00:24:36.509 Brady Hugins: Here's various types of purchases, and… Steps for each. 233 00:24:43.320 --> 00:24:45.519 Brady Hugins: If we look at the overview. 234 00:24:48.330 --> 00:24:53.429 Brady Hugins: We can see a number of different executions. These are for the week, or on a weekly basis. 235 00:24:55.250 --> 00:24:59.689 Brady Hugins: And we've had 761 designed now, we've… 236 00:24:59.810 --> 00:25:05.889 Brady Hugins: gone through a number of them, and I think we actively use about 300 or so at the moment. 237 00:25:08.560 --> 00:25:15.970 Brady Hugins: You can see we have, number of different successes. 238 00:25:16.510 --> 00:25:20.060 Brady Hugins: And… I've been… 239 00:25:21.820 --> 00:25:30.319 Brady Hugins: Around less than 2,000 executions on a day, and then I need some cleanup, like, these are over-executing as well. 240 00:25:30.430 --> 00:25:31.280 Brady Hugins: So… 241 00:25:34.540 --> 00:25:43.520 Brady Hugins: Put the number of different… these are all processes, so we can break down… There's a synthetic heartbeat monitor. 242 00:25:45.060 --> 00:25:53.700 Brady Hugins: So this is 2… Determine every 15 minutes, And check. 243 00:25:54.000 --> 00:25:57.920 Brady Hugins: To see the status of various, systems. 244 00:25:59.500 --> 00:26:08.769 Brady Hugins: These are… to check… I think our websites, and some of the… Yeah, various systems. 245 00:26:10.000 --> 00:26:10.979 Brady Hugins: It's a heartbeat. 246 00:26:12.230 --> 00:26:13.899 Brady Hugins: Three 15 minutes. 247 00:26:15.110 --> 00:26:16.729 Brady Hugins: With failure alerts. 248 00:26:21.770 --> 00:26:29.480 Brady Hugins: And then a number of different areas to look at for your failed executions, if you have any executions. 249 00:26:31.810 --> 00:26:34.670 Brady Hugins: So I do… you can tell when I'm doing… 250 00:26:35.480 --> 00:26:41.920 Brady Hugins: Development work, because you'll get a spike sometimes in failed production executions, and then a cleanup process. 251 00:26:42.500 --> 00:26:45.629 Brady Hugins: I'll go through cleanup, like I was just doing some cleanup today. 252 00:26:49.860 --> 00:26:51.880 Brady Hugins: Webinar reminders… 253 00:27:00.520 --> 00:27:10.150 Brady Hugins: There's a reminder schedule… Registration… Sending out a different reminder. 254 00:27:10.460 --> 00:27:12.120 Brady Hugins: In various areas. 255 00:27:12.220 --> 00:27:14.180 Brady Hugins: Discord or through emails? 256 00:27:23.400 --> 00:27:24.320 Brady Hugins: Okay… 257 00:27:32.810 --> 00:27:38.320 Brady Hugins: So, it gives you a good idea of what a active… Very active. 258 00:27:39.350 --> 00:27:41.120 Brady Hugins: Workflow engine looks like. 259 00:27:43.020 --> 00:27:46.749 Brady Hugins: That's what would I be called a developer. 260 00:27:48.690 --> 00:27:50.399 Brady Hugins: Sizing and volume? 261 00:27:52.910 --> 00:27:58.180 Brady Hugins: A lot less expensive to run than renting a SaaS stack. 262 00:28:02.130 --> 00:28:04.509 Brady Hugins: to get that on a SAS stack. 263 00:28:04.930 --> 00:28:08.010 Brady Hugins: It'd be in the tens of thousands, maybe, a month? 264 00:28:09.540 --> 00:28:11.310 Brady Hugins: I haven't done the math on that. 265 00:28:13.930 --> 00:28:22.900 Brady Hugins: So… Now that you've seen a number of different manual steps and workflows that I've put together. 266 00:28:24.760 --> 00:28:29.089 Brady Hugins: If you could go and put your own workflow together and have that all handled. 267 00:28:29.200 --> 00:28:36.170 Brady Hugins: If there was some sort of, form, or something that was taking up quite a bit of time, or… 268 00:28:36.720 --> 00:28:42.749 Brady Hugins: You had a number of different information from different areas that needed consolidating. 269 00:28:44.010 --> 00:28:46.600 Brady Hugins: Take some time to write that down this week. 270 00:28:46.850 --> 00:28:50.190 Brady Hugins: And what a good workflow would be to test out. 271 00:28:52.300 --> 00:28:56.270 Brady Hugins: What might be some tools or questions that you would have in regards to that? 272 00:29:01.600 --> 00:29:09.199 Brady Hugins: So, where are you mixing Trigger and Logic in the same SaaS tool, and what would it take to separate them? So… 273 00:29:09.400 --> 00:29:12.689 Brady Hugins: Instead of thinking more about 274 00:29:13.590 --> 00:29:21.400 Brady Hugins: the middle, which is the process, try to think more about what is you need to input, and then… 275 00:29:21.530 --> 00:29:30.809 Brady Hugins: think of some… in some ways, a black box in the middle, and then what is the output? And be really clear about what are the inputs and what are the outputs, and then… 276 00:29:32.110 --> 00:29:41.930 Brady Hugins: A lot of the… middle work. There's quite a bit of syntax and interactivity that's needed across databases. 277 00:29:42.710 --> 00:29:51.450 Brady Hugins: So… Look at triggers, and then where you would want to send information and why. 278 00:29:52.930 --> 00:29:55.700 Brady Hugins: Rather than figuring out all the process. 279 00:29:56.190 --> 00:29:58.500 Brady Hugins: But what rules that you want. 280 00:30:02.610 --> 00:30:08.000 Brady Hugins: which engine, if it broke silently for a week, would cost you the most? So, if you had, like, an… 281 00:30:08.460 --> 00:30:20.049 Brady Hugins: Workflows can need testing for silent error, so there may be some sort of error where it says it's functioning, but it's not functioning the way that it… you would need it to be productive. 282 00:30:22.490 --> 00:30:25.479 Brady Hugins: So it's like green light when everything's not green lights. 283 00:30:26.080 --> 00:30:27.489 Brady Hugins: It's a silent error. 284 00:30:28.590 --> 00:30:35.090 Brady Hugins: So, if something broke, what would it be? It usually has something to do with, like, a product sale. 285 00:30:36.910 --> 00:30:43.640 Brady Hugins: Sometimes cash flow… Some sort of production or operating need. 286 00:30:50.660 --> 00:31:01.290 Brady Hugins: So, if you have needs, and you need someone to talk through those, I'm happy to help, and have options available for people that have need for that. 287 00:31:03.380 --> 00:31:08.689 Brady Hugins: So, if you're part of the course, this is part of the data sovereignty course package. 288 00:31:10.130 --> 00:31:21.339 Brady Hugins: We do have a number of different systems that I'm designing in and putting together for different use cases in different industries. 289 00:31:22.670 --> 00:31:33.360 Brady Hugins: We do have the membership available. That's the package for… it's more of a personal membership, or an individual developer membership, but I will have some… 290 00:31:33.590 --> 00:31:45.080 Brady Hugins: Pro-style memberships available for small teams, as well, and for any one Company or enterprise-level companies. 291 00:31:48.580 --> 00:31:57.169 Brady Hugins: So, and then I'm happy to sit down with someone over a 60-minute session. We can go and design something, pen and paper even. 292 00:31:57.710 --> 00:32:04.840 Brady Hugins: To design your first engine and workflow together. What that would look like, what potential tools you could use. 293 00:32:06.110 --> 00:32:07.669 Brady Hugins: How would you go about that? 294 00:32:08.500 --> 00:32:09.569 Brady Hugins: Happy to help. 295 00:32:10.180 --> 00:32:11.030 Brady Hugins: So… 296 00:32:13.390 --> 00:32:25.810 Brady Hugins: Thank you for today. That's all that we have for today. Workflows and work engines are… and engines are… and automation… automators are an important component. 297 00:32:26.040 --> 00:32:34.430 Brady Hugins: In some ways, they're very simple, in the sense that they go from A to B to C, and finish everything when they're working. 298 00:32:35.420 --> 00:32:41.199 Brady Hugins: But setting them up, or understanding them, and understanding the various components of them. 299 00:32:41.700 --> 00:32:45.620 Brady Hugins: That can be more tactical and important to… 300 00:32:46.640 --> 00:32:49.229 Brady Hugins: Work from a development capacity, so… 301 00:32:49.800 --> 00:32:53.479 Brady Hugins: Happy to be available for any help with that, as well. 302 00:32:54.830 --> 00:33:01.950 Brady Hugins: Again, this is Brady Hugans, this is May 22nd, and I appreciate you all. Have a good day.