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santa_boy · 4 days ago

Few qs:

1) Is there something that n8n does that's not possible on Sim? 2) Is there a node to create custom stuff like n8n's code node? Possibly nodejs and python 3) Is it easy to import packages from npm or pip

waleedlatif1 · 4 days ago

1) functionally, not that I'm aware of. the only thing right now is running from a specific block onwards, something that we are rolling out this week. you'll be able to run the workflow in debug mode and get really granular information about each node, the inputs and outputs, and resume from any point in the workflow with mock data

2) there is, we also have a code node that uses E2B to run code in isolated sandboxes. it supports python and ts/js

3) yes, in the code node you can use frameworks/libs since we do RCE

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eightnoteight · 5 days ago

for the workflow DAG, what type of backend are you guys using? is it like temporal or self-built durable workflows

waleedlatif1 · 5 days ago

we built an execution engine ourselves https://github.com/simstudioai/sim/tree/main/apps/sim/execut... and for the infra for background jobs, we use https://trigger.dev/

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devangjhabakh · 5 days ago

This is amazing! Thank you all for building this!

waleedlatif1 · 5 days ago

thank you! hope you enjoy

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rcarmo · 6 days ago

Azure is just fine, as long as it's documented someplace. I'll take a look, although I also couldn't find prebuilt Docker images referenced in the compose.local file (I will look into what is being built into ghcr.io)

waleedlatif1 · 5 days ago

the prebuilt images are in compose.prod file only, not in compose.local.

since the copilot is a managed service, you’d be setting those azure credentials in your .env and the copilot would call into your azure openai deployment.

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otabdeveloper4 · 6 days ago

There is nothing in Node-Red that is specific to IoT.

waleedlatif1 · 5 days ago

afaik, there are actually a ton of unique IoT integrations that node-red has. a majority of their nodes/flows have accompanying physical devices and sensors

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pylotlight · 5 days ago

Also on the topic of UX. Dark mode on main site to prevent the blinding?

waleedlatif1 · 5 days ago

coming soon

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greggh · 5 days ago

Thanks, and that sounds great. On the backend what are you using for the DAG stuff to make it durable? Temporal?

waleedlatif1 · 5 days ago

We actually wrote our own serializer & execution engine and for long-running jobs, we defer to trigger.dev

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rcarmo · 6 days ago

This looks really cool, but not being able to use my own LLM endpoints for the Copilot is an instant turn-off.

waleedlatif1 · 6 days ago

You actually can, if you self-host there are environment variables to control what models are available to the copilot but it’s tuned to Azure for the time being. We can work on generalizing it further and documenting it better

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vegasbrianc · 6 days ago

Open Sourced until we get rug pulled..

waleedlatif1 · 6 days ago

Everything that’s available today in our repo will be Apache 2.0 forever, so you don’t have to worry about that :)

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greggh · 6 days ago

Development seems pretty rapid, how often are breaking changes forcing workflow modifications to keep updated with the latest versions?

waleedlatif1 · 6 days ago

We keep all workflows running on Sim cloud backwards compatible always. The idea is that you build, deploy, and never have to make modifications again unless you want to.

If we release a breaking change that requires a migration for existing local workflows, we release notice at least a few weeks ahead of time/bake it into the db migrations.

Incase there are significant changes made, everything is versioned so you opt-in to upgrading.

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