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Getting Started with Serverless Integrations

August 12, 2018 Adolfo Garza Comments 130 comments

Serverless functions (also known as functions as a service) can help you simplify your integrations because you only need to code your logic in a function and the service provider will take care of all the backend hardware, scaling, OS, availability, instances, etc… Other benefits of serverless technology are that the hardware and software is fully managed, scales automatically almost instantly, and you only pay whenever your function runs so it can be very inexpensive. Some of the most popular…

Epic Battle: Concurrent Map Reduce vs Concurrent Suitelet

July 8, 2017 Adolfo Garza Comments 1,227 comments

I am a big fan of Map Reduce scripts, spreading the load among 5 queues makes a huge difference when processing your data. Unfortunately to take advantage of the concurrent queues feature your account must have a SuiteCloud plus license. So I figured it would be cool to simulate this feature with Suitelets. Suitelets support up to 50 concurrent connections and they are available without the need of SuiteCloud plus. The results were very surprising. Test scenario: Task: Create and…

You are not crazy, SS2.0 External Suitelets don’t run clientside code

July 6, 2017 Adolfo Garza Comments 446 comments

Hey guys, just letting you know that I encountered an issue recently. I was trying to create a Suitelet “Available without Login” that uses a form and I was attaching a button and a clientscript to it, but guess what? The button doesn’t work. I checked the console and every time I call the button I get “require is not defined” error: So I stripped the suitelet to the most barebones version and I still got the error. I verified…