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The Robotic Process Automation Handbook: A Guide to Implementing RPA Systems

Name: The Robotic Process Automation Handbook: A Guide to Implementing RPA Systems
Author: Tom Taulli
ISBN: 9781484257296

by Tom Taulli

February 2020

Intermediate to advanced

359 pages

6h 43m

English

Apress

Content preview from The Robotic Process Automation Handbook: A Guide to Implementing RPA Systems

T. TaulliThe Robotic Process Automation Handbookhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5729-6_2

2. RPA Skills

Tom Taulli¹

(1)

Monrovia, CA, USA

The Technologies You Need to Know

While RPA does not require programming skills, there is still a need to understand high-level concepts about technology. Unfortunately, the concepts can get extremely complex and confusing. It seems like there is an endless number of acronyms like ACL, API, OCR, CPU, HTTP, IP, JSON, NOC, PCI, RAM, and SaaS.

Even tech veterans do not know many of the terms – or have just a vague understanding of their meanings. For example, here’s how Kubernetes is defined:

Kubernetes (K8s) is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized ...

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