Flowfile v0.8.0 — Your Flows Can Run Themselves Now

Full disclosure: I built Flowfile. This post is about a feature I just shipped and why I think it matters. Up until this release, Flowfile was a tool you designed pipelines in. You'd build a flow visually, maybe export the code, and then figure out how to actually run it on a schedule. That "figure out" part usually meant cron, Airflow, or a very optimistic shell script. v0.8.0 changes that. Flowfile now has a built-in scheduler. You can set an interval, trigger flows when data updates, or just hit "Run" from the catalog. No external orchestrator needed. I'm not going to pretend this competes with Airflow or Dagster for serious production workloads. It doesn't. But if you've ever had a lightweight data platform where you just needed a few flows to run on a timer without setting up a whole orchestration layer — this is that. The Part I'm Most Excited About: Table Triggers Interval scheduling is useful but not interesting. "Run every 30 minutes" is solved. What I actually want to talk ab