Automation reduces manual work by reacting to events and running trusted sequences. Start with simple rules, graduate to workflows, and apply advanced patterns when volume grows. This hub introduces each layer—use the child articles for specifics.Documentation Index
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Automation
Rules, workflows, schedules, and advanced reliability patterns.
Rules and triggers
Define when automation runs using events, filters, and guardrails.
Scheduled tasks
Cron-style schedules, timezone handling, and backoff.
Workflow builder
Build your first workflow
Step-by-step creation of a simple approval workflow.
Conditions and branches
Model conditional paths and merge strategies in workflows.
Error handling
Retries, compensating steps, and alerting when workflows fail.
Advanced patterns
Rate limits
Understand automation rate limits and how to design around them.
Idempotency
Use idempotency keys to make automation safe under retries.
Retry policies
Configure exponential backoff, max attempts, and dead-letter handling.