Low-Code Automation Tools with Teeth: FlowFuse & N8N

Low-code automation has grown up, and the competition is getting spicy. In this episode of Pop Goes the Stack, F5's Lori MacVittie and Joel Moses are joined by Aubrey King as they dig into the heavyweight duel between N8N and FlowFuse—two platforms promising to empower teams to automate anything without waiting for overworked developers. We cut through the marketing fluff and look at the real differences in architecture, deployment models, extensibility, security posture, and operational experience. How do they scale? Who controls your data? And what happens when the automation breaks at 2 a.m.? If you care about automation that doesn’t collapse under real-world pressure, you’ll want to hear this.

Read our F5 research for more on the status of automation in IT: https://www.f5.com/resources/reports/state-of-application-strategy-report