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Practical Process Automation
Orchestration and Integration in Microservices and Cloud-native Architectures.
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
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
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261 pages, Paperback
Published March 1, 2021
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December 29, 2021
Potential bias: I got this book for free at a conference. It is however free to download as an ebook on the Camunda website.
The book gives a lot of good insights in the different use-cases for Process Automation tooling. When to use them, when not to use them and most of all (which is an aspect I liked): Who can benefit from using these tools? (nearly everyone as long as it isn't used to over-engineer a simple system).
I liked that the author clearly states his biases (creator of Camunda, one of the most well know Workflow / Process Automation tools on the market). The book does not feel like a commercial for his product at all, although sometimes the frequent mentions of "any good good workflow engine should have X" feels like a jab towards competitors not offering feature X. It does not get in the way of solid reasoning and argumentation... so I don't consider it a bit deal.
I like that the book challenges a few misconceptions I and many other developers have about Process Automation Tools. For that "breaking out of a thought pattern" alone, this is worth the read!
The book gives a lot of good insights in the different use-cases for Process Automation tooling. When to use them, when not to use them and most of all (which is an aspect I liked): Who can benefit from using these tools? (nearly everyone as long as it isn't used to over-engineer a simple system).
I liked that the author clearly states his biases (creator of Camunda, one of the most well know Workflow / Process Automation tools on the market). The book does not feel like a commercial for his product at all, although sometimes the frequent mentions of "any good good workflow engine should have X" feels like a jab towards competitors not offering feature X. It does not get in the way of solid reasoning and argumentation... so I don't consider it a bit deal.
I like that the book challenges a few misconceptions I and many other developers have about Process Automation Tools. For that "breaking out of a thought pattern" alone, this is worth the read!
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