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Notes on keeping automations alive.

Reliability and monitoring lessons for the people running Zapier, Make, and n8n workflows — what breaks quietly, and how to catch it.

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Why every automation needs a heartbeat

A heartbeat is a reliability trick from the DevOps world: when an expected signal goes missing, that absence becomes the alarm. Here's why your automations deserve one too.

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