New reactions is a platform to interact with technology that surrounds our physical and digital space. We believe in the power of connectivity and automation, where a user can hand over control of a certain aspect of their lives, to make life a little easier. This project was born from an admiration of IFTTT’s brilliant approach to IoT -- simultaneously paying homage and innovating on the concept. Here, we harness the power of technology to transform actions into reactions.
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New reactions allows a user to select an action, for example when a user receives a Gmail labeled "important", a reaction, such as a SMS text message via Twilio, will be sent. An action is connected to a reaction through the creation of a formulae. Another use case is that a user can send a text message to turn on any device, such as a fan, connected to a Belkin Wemo Insight Smart Switch.
New reactions is built upon modular microservices -- each service runs in a Docker container linked together through a docker-compose.yml file, which offers:
- Portability between execution environments, such as AWS or Digital Ocean.
- Minimize divergence between development and production environments which streamlines continuous deployment.
- Scalability -- new instances of microservices can be readily created.
