Workload Automation Blog

2020

Use Case: Historical P&L Analysis - 20th October By Dave Carnal
Historical P&L Analysis Automation

Clarity Analytics was hired by a predominant prop trading firm to analyse a handful of accounts and produce historic P&L and margin requirements over the last 6 years. The joint venture between Senex solutions’ accounting platform and XonaSoftware’s low-code automation made this possible.

We built two workflows (a set of automated steps) in Xona's automation platform to get this done. The automation platform "automated" Senex's accounting platform, as it was leveraged to do some computation.

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Crank Up Workload Automation! - 23rd June By Mike Mazzolini
Crank up workload automation

As the pandemic continues to rock the world, companies are searching for ways to navigate through these uncertain times. Organizations need to adapt to a constantly changing environment while fighting their way back to business as usual. One solution: Workload automation

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JavaScript as a LowCode Solution in Workload Automation 29th July By Dave Carnal
javascript lowcode

In the argument between lowcode and nocode automation, I’ve always felt there is an 80/20 rule. 80% of your workflows should use very little code, if any, while 20% will use a modest amount. If you're not getting to 80%, your tools are not doing enough.

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2016

Islands of Security -- Scripts with Too Much Access 15th August By Dave Carnal
islands of security

Have you noticed that many devops and/or ops scripts end up running with unnecessarily high privileges?

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Instant Audit / Complete Transparency 8th August By Dave Carnal
IT transparency

What runs as root or Administrator? What runs on this server? If this network fails, what do we need to move and restart? All of these can be hard and exceptionally time-consuming to answer -- adding time/cost to the audit process and delay/complexity when recovering from disaster.

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Self-Documenting - One Small Step for A Man, One Giant Leap for Business-kind 9th August By Mike Mazzolini
self-documenting process

A show of hands, "Who likes documenting their processes?". If I could see the many people reading this post, I would probably notice 10% of your hands up. I think we can mostly agree that documentation is not a favorite task.

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Consolidating Logs 1st August By Dave Carnal
Consolidating Logs

A show of hands, "Who likes documenting their processes?". If I could see the many people reading this post, I would probably notice 10% of your hands up. I think we can mostly agree that documentation is not a favorite task.

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2015

Stop Writing Scripts! - 2nd November By Mike Mazzolini
Stop Writing Scripts

Please, I beg you, “Stop!” Yes, stop writing scripts and instead build workflows. Programmers, Sys-Admins, System Support, I’m talking to you.

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