The Connector Evolved: Hands-On with the Mediator 9 Demo
The demo is fully functional for 14 days, with no credit card required to spin up the local Docker container.
| Metric | Mediator 8 | Mediator 9 (Demo) | | :--- | :--- | :--- | | | 4m 22s | 2m 01s | | Memory Usage | 890 MB | 412 MB | | Failed Retries | 12 | 3 |
In the demo, I built a faulty workflow that sent a webhook to a dead URL. Instead of failing silently, I clicked a "Run Debug" button. The demo literally paused the workflow at the error step, showed me the exact payload that broke it, let me edit the URL in real-time , and then continued the run.
The new parallel processing engine is no joke. The demo felt snappy even when I intentionally added 500ms delays to each step. It isn't perfect. The demo version crashed twice when I tried to import a legacy Mediator 7 workflow. The support rep told me, "Legacy loops are parsing differently in 9," so expect a migration script on launch day.
Also, the new "AI Transformer" node is cool (it lets you use GPT-4 to map fields), but it hallucinated a field name once. Turn on "Human approval" for that node until they patch it. Yes.
If you currently use Zapier, you will find Mediator 9 to be faster and cheaper at scale. If you use n8n, you will appreciate the prettier error handling. If you are a developer, the REST API endpoints for managing workflows are finally RESTful (v8 was a mess).
The Connector Evolved: Hands-On with the Mediator 9 Demo
The demo is fully functional for 14 days, with no credit card required to spin up the local Docker container.
| Metric | Mediator 8 | Mediator 9 (Demo) | | :--- | :--- | :--- | | | 4m 22s | 2m 01s | | Memory Usage | 890 MB | 412 MB | | Failed Retries | 12 | 3 |
In the demo, I built a faulty workflow that sent a webhook to a dead URL. Instead of failing silently, I clicked a "Run Debug" button. The demo literally paused the workflow at the error step, showed me the exact payload that broke it, let me edit the URL in real-time , and then continued the run.
The new parallel processing engine is no joke. The demo felt snappy even when I intentionally added 500ms delays to each step. It isn't perfect. The demo version crashed twice when I tried to import a legacy Mediator 7 workflow. The support rep told me, "Legacy loops are parsing differently in 9," so expect a migration script on launch day.
Also, the new "AI Transformer" node is cool (it lets you use GPT-4 to map fields), but it hallucinated a field name once. Turn on "Human approval" for that node until they patch it. Yes.
If you currently use Zapier, you will find Mediator 9 to be faster and cheaper at scale. If you use n8n, you will appreciate the prettier error handling. If you are a developer, the REST API endpoints for managing workflows are finally RESTful (v8 was a mess).
