DAG Workflow Engine

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  1. Daisy-DAG

  2. AppSignal

    Monitoring that respects your time & budget. APM, error tracking, and dashboards for modern web apps. Ten-minute setup, transparent flat pricing, and support from engineers who actually use the product.

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  3. rex

    The Rex Programming Language (by peterkelly)

    I've always been of the view that for a workflow language, you should use a proper, turing-complete functional language which gives you all the usual flexiblity for transformations on intermediate data, while also supporting things like automatic parallelisation of things like external, compute-intensive tasks.

    I recommend checking out https://github.com/peterkelly/rex and also my PhD thesis on the topic https://www.pmkelly.net/publications/thesis.pdf.

    The gap in flexiblity between DAG-only and a full language designed for the task is a significant one.

  4. mgmt

    Next generation distributed, event-driven, parallel config management!

    Here's a different kind of workflow engine with a proper DSL. It turns out config management is the same problem as workflow engines, if you use my modern definition of config management.

    https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/

  5. Sequential Workflow Designer

    The Sequential Workflow Designer is a powerful, no-code workflow builder and visual flow editor designed for modern web applications. Whether you call it a workflow designer, flowchart editor, or flow designer, it enables users to visually create and manage logic flows with ease.

  6. sequential-workflow-machine

    Powerful sequential workflow machine for front-end and back-end applications. Check out https://nocode-js.com

  7. redun

    Yet another redundant workflow engine

  8. dagu

    Local-first workflow engine for teams whose main work isn't orchestration. Declarative YAML over your scripts, SSH commands, containers, and AI agents; keep workflows separate from business logic. One binary, no database. Airflow alternative.

  9. SaaSHub

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