Jumping Raccoons

Quick interview about the project and tech used with the team

Team:

Joakim, Karl, Jackson, Edvald

Concept:
Raccoon Uploader - upload through Rust & Zapier. Client in rust, integrate with Zapier for uploading images to slack & google drive

Tech:
Rust, Zapier

Outcome

The tech of choice for this team is Zapier and Rust. The team started off optimistically, but due to challenges with Zapier, they had to change course. Learnings include that Zapier speeds up integration and offers the ability to connect different systems, but also that Zapier webhooks don’t provide custom returns and has limitations searching. The final conclusion for the team is that they would use Zapier again (as we currently already are), bit probably not Rust. Finding documentation was challenging since searches mostly return images about rusty products. The combination of Zapier and Rust does not make sense to them currently.