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Pipes was way ahead of the curve but is also targeted at a moderately more sophisticated audience than the task triggers IFTTT and Zapier. Pipes focus is more a
by spullara 14y ago
Pipes was way ahead of the curve but is also targeted at a moderately more sophisticated audience than the task triggers IFTTT and Zapier. Pipes focus is more about data collection, filtering and transformation -- like Unix pipes vs cron.
BTW, both Pipes and YQL are powered by the same engine and serve billions of requests per day (for both O&O and 3rd parties).
- malandrew 14y agoI'd love to hear more about the engine that powers pipes and YQL. Can you tell us more or let me know where we can read more about it?
- spullara 14y agoI'll encourage them to do a blog post on it.
- rll 14y agoThe day Pipes launched was quite eventful. There was some very "creative" code in there that wasn't really designed to take the traffic it received on launch. Completely different today and I still use its cousin YQL for many things.