In today's IT architectures microservices and serverless functions play an increasingly
important role. But how can you create meaningful comprehensive and connected business
solutions if the individual components are decoupled and independent by design? This book
provides a framework through examples and practical advice and reveals how you can design
complex processes in such an environment to deliver true business value. Systems that become
more distributed asynchronous and reactive usually require state handling to deal with
long-running interactions. Author Bernd Ruecker demonstrates how to use process automation
technology to apply typical long-running patterns around resiliency messaging orchestration
or consistency without forcing your service implementation to become stateful itself. With this
guide you'll discover how process automation compares to business process management
service-oriented architecture batch processing event streaming and data pipeline solutions.
Learn how to utilize process automation in cloud-scale or low-latency scenarios Explore options
for designing architecture that facilitates process automation Learn methods for modeling
processes properly to avoid potential pitfalls Understand the difference between orchestration
and choreography and how to balance both Examine process automation use cases to learn viable
solutions and appreciate the possibilities
