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n8n Binary Programming is the definitive, production-focused guide to building reliable, file-driven automation workflows in n8n. Most automation breaks not because of logic errors, but because files are mishandled. Corrupted downloads, missing attachments, silent binary loss, memory crashes, and workflows that work in testing but fail in production are all symptoms of the same problem: a shallow understanding of binary data. This book exists to fix that. Written for professional developers and automation engineers, this hands-on guide goes far beyond basic node usage. It teaches you how binary data actually behaves inside n8n, how files move through items and executions, and how to design workflows that remain correct, scalable, and safe under real production load. You will learn how n8n stores and references binary data internally, how binary lifecycles interact with execution context, and why files disappear when items are merged, replaced, or retried incorrectly. You will master safe patterns for reading files from disk, APIs, email attachments, and cloud storage, then transforming, validating, routing, and exporting them without corruption. Every concept is reinforced with real, runnable examples that mirror real-world automation scenarios. The book covers document pipelines, media workflows, archive handling, API-driven file ingestion, performance and memory constraints, debugging strategies, and production-ready design patterns. Entire chapters are dedicated to troubleshooting binary failures, preventing silent data loss, and building workflows that survive retries, scale cleanly, and behave predictably over time. The final chapters walk through complete end-to-end projects and distill hard-earned lessons from production use. This is not a reference manual and not a collection of recipes copied from documentation. It is a deep, experience-driven guide that builds a correct mental model of binary handling in n8n, so you stop guessing and start designing workflows that work the first time-and keep working. If you build automations that handle files, documents, media, reports, or archives, this book will fundamentally change how you design n8n workflows. It will save you hours of debugging, prevent data corruption, and give you the confidence to deploy binary-heavy automations in production environments. This is the missing manual for serious n8n automation.

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