Books

Enterprise Process Orchestration

A hands-on guide to strategy, team structures, and technology

Wiley, 2024

Practical Process Automation

Orchestration and Integration in Microservices and Cloud Native Architectures

O'Reilly, 2021

Real-Life BPMN

Using BPMN 2.0 to Analyze, Improve, and Automate Processes

5th Edition, 2025

Blog posts

Process Automation In Harmony With RPA

- Share Deutsche Telekom’s story about their initial success with RPA and the challenges emerging from that success - Describe their key solution strategies,...

Publishing “Practical Process Automation” With O’Reilly

In this book, I distilled my practical experience implementing process automation solutions from the last two decadeshttps://berndruecker.io/bio.php.

Camunda Closes $100 Million Series B Funding Round to Automate Any Process, Anywhere

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Communication Between Loosely Coupled Microservices — Webinar FAQ

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Gaining visibility into processes spanning multiple microservices

In this blog post I will introduce process events monitoring as possible remedy. Before I can do that, I will briefly explain a typical event-driven architec...

Revisiting your daily routine workflow diagram if you want to automate processes

> The real thinking behind was that I really want to show you that creating workflow diagrams is a very useful thing and can help you oversee everything basi...

From Project to Program: Scaling Camunda Adoption in Your Company

> How can we scale Camunda adoption within the enterprise?

Orchestrate AWS Lambda using Camunda Cloud

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How we ran a successful virtual conference with > 6500 attendees

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Microservices Webinar FAQ

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Zeebe ❤️ Kafka

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Camunda Cloud: The why, the what and the how

I personally liked Forget monoliths vs. microservices. Cognitive load is what mattershttps://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/forget-monoliths-vs-microservices...

Leverage the full potential of reactive architectures and design reactive business processes

Unfortunately I see many companies that don’t adjust their business processes to this new world. In this post I want to give one example and discuss the cons...

How we built a highly scalable distributed state machine

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Zeebe.io — a horizontally scalable distributed workflow engine

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How to tame event-driven microservices

Modern microservices architectures are event-driven, reactive, and choreographed as opposed to being centrally controlled via an orchestrator. That makes the...

Developer Relations at Camunda - 2018 Recap

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