Introducing new Enterprise-ready feature for Stamplay

As larger companies start running their processes with us, there’s more to think about — like the risk of temporary outages of apps involved in a workflow, order of execution and breaking changes of connected systems.

Our team has been working hard to solve these complexities for the enterprise. That’s why we’re introducing powerful additions to Stamplay that can help your organization to safely run critical automations: Sequential Flows and Fault tolerance.

Fault Tolerance (aka Autoreplay)

Fault Tolerance is like an insurance for your Flow, you might not need it every time, but you will definitely be glad that you have it when disaster strikes!

In case some of the apps or services involved in your Flow have any issue, Fault Tolerance makes your Flow smart enough to try the action again right away and then a few more times if there is still an issue. After that first time it will wait a little bit longer before attempting, so whether the cause of the error was just a minor blip or a 5-hour outage, Stamplay will still be able to replay the action as soon as the error is resolved.

In some instances, the task may never finish — in that case, you will receive the normal error email and have the opportunity to manually replay the task from your Flow History, just like you’ve been able to do all along.

Sequential Flows

The sequential Flow option executes a one or more instance of the same flow in order, one by one.

Imagine you have a flow which is triggered every time you get an email, and let’s say that your flow is long and has several branches. If you get two emails almost at the same time triggering Flow instance A and Flow instance B. By running these two instances in parallel instance B could potentially finish before instance A, and in scenarios where you need to preserve the execution order this would be very bad.

A sequential Flow executes its instances in a sequential manner until the last action of the flow that is running finishes.

We’ve a lot more coming up in the next weeks! If you have any question just comment this blogpost, shoot us a tweet at @stamplay or can join our Slack channel to chat with the team and other users of our community :)
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Giuliano and the team,