Flowable (V6) VS cadence

I’m doing a lot of exploratory work with BPMN right now.

I think if your business is largely transactional (think Stripe), there is a lot of value to be had by framing your development as “business process automation”.

The term (and BPMN) has a lot of enterprise baggage, but some of the tools out there [0][1] are well suited to orchestrating services (and people where necessary) as a single automated process. The the ability to build that flow visually using BPMN, and then execute it in a workflow engine where you can monitor it, audit it, and optimize over time is pretty compelling.

Here’s an interesting read on the topic: https://www.infoq.com/articles/events-workflow-automation/

[0] https://github.com/camunda-cloud/zeebe

[1] https://github.com/flowable/flowable-engine

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May be this..https://cadenceworkflow.io/

a managed esb orchestration for example is exactly same as step functions and workflow engines like cadence - https://github.com/uber/cadence

Having done a reasonable amount of messaging code in my time, I would say the final form of this sort of thing might look more like Cadence[0] than anything like this.

[0] https://github.com/uber/cadence

Emit events from your primary DB (postgres, etc.) to something like kafka or rabbitmq and then catch that in your search engine. There's also some end-to-end solutions like temporal (temporal.io) or cadence (https://cadenceworkflow.io/)