Event-driven automation
An automation triggered by a real-time event rather than a schedule. A new email arriving, a form submission, or a payment succeeding all "fire" event-driven workflows instantly, versus a scheduled job that runs every hour.
Expert insight
Event-driven design is almost always the better default over polling on a schedule, it's faster (seconds instead of minutes), cheaper on API quota, and scales naturally with actual activity instead of running a fixed number of checks regardless of whether anything changed. The only reason to fall back to a scheduled/polling trigger is when the source system genuinely doesn't support webhooks.
How PURIST uses this
This concept is built into every automation we deploy.
When PURIST builds your automation, Event-driven automation is not an optional consideration it is part of the production standard. Our workflows are tested against edge cases, monitored 24/7, and built to handle what happens when things don't go as expected.
Every client workflow we deploy in the Core concepts category is designed with this principle in mind from day one not added as an afterthought.
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