CodeSOD: Going with the Flow

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The power of a good devops team is that you can get fast, reliable, and repeatable deployments. It lays out a foundation for rapid iteration and quick releases. With that in mind, Lakeisha was pretty excited to start a new job working in devops.

She walked in the door, with visions of well architected, scripted flows, robust automated testing, and strict architectural guidelines. About fifteen minutes in, she learn that FISI guided their entire devops workflow. If it worked, it worked.

A few years back, someone had discovered MuleSoft’s devops solutions and their “enterprise service bus”. The ESB lets developers define “flows”, which describe how messages pass between components in a large-scale, complex application.

That much was fine, but no one on the team decided to learn how to do things in Mule’s tools. Any time there was a new requirement, someone would say, “We can build a Mule flow

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