Pipes was ahead of its time. Built a scraper and aggregator back in 2008-2010, fetching content from over 2000 sources, pumping all of it into a Drupal website. The amount of regex transformations and other things I had in that pipeline - is in hindsight - more complex, larger scale, and more convoluted that any other nifi or airflow pipelines I built later in my career. And all of it was free. What was possible was limited only by one's creativity!
AceJohnny2|1 month ago
It's important to take the perspective that the Silicon Valley isn't an incubator of technology, but of business models.
Yahoo Pipes being free is exactly what killed them. Without a sustainable business model, they could not last.