Cloud Native RPA’s with Python

May 29, 2019 - NEW ARTICLE on IT-NEXT

IT-NEXT, the well known Medium Publication, has published David Katz's article regarding the the development of Python based, Cloud Native RPA's (Robotic Process Automation).


Using a cloud file store is the best approach to decoupling input and output data. In this example we will use a Google Sheets spreadsheet tab as the input of our business process and we will spin up a minio object storage container listening on port 9000 to store our output data files. Our input file will be a spreadsheet containing what companies need to be looked up and our output will simply be a folder containing the SEC reports from said companies. Our RPA should be able to spin up, check if there are pending rows to process, process them, and then persist the output. Lets create the mutable infrastructure that our RPA will run on.

Read more here
https://itnext.io/cloud-native-rpas-with-python-a22cdb6690d0 (opens new window)