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

Camunda raised € 25M Series A funding

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The Microservice Workflow Automation Cheat Sheet

- Scope and boundaries “what workflow do you want to automate and how is this mapped to multiple microservices or bounded contextshttps://martinfowler.com/bl...

How to benefit from robotic process automation (RPA)

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BizDevOps — the true value proposition of workflow engines

BPMN is an ISO standardhttp://www.bpmn.org/ and its beauty is that it defines a business readable graphical visualization that is also directly executable on...

Fail fast is not enough!

Remote communication inevitably must respect the 8 fallacies of distributed programminghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_distributed_computing. So y...

3 common pitfalls in microservice integration — and how to avoid them

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How I record my own talks

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How blockchain can drastically simplify business processes.

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Orchestrating Azure Functions using BPMN and Camunda — a case study

For most use cases just calling one simple function is not enough, you have to call multiple functions in the right order to implement a proper end-to-end us...

Architecture options to run a workflow engine

> “We do composite services, orchestrating two or three CRUD-Services to do something more useful. Our architects want to use your workflow engine for this b...

Hack day experiments with the cloud and orchestration of serverless functions

The idea was easy: Let’s do a simple ticket booking example, where we have to do reservation and a ticket creation. The latter might need computing power for...

Avoiding the “BPM monolith” when using bounded contexts

- The domain - The organizational structure, including the development teams.

Use Camunda as an easy-to-use REST-based orchestration and workflow engine (without touching Java)

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“The flow” is for BPM what microservices are for SOA

I quickly scanned through the linked blog posthttp://redmonk.com/sogrady/2017/07/20/soa-microservices/ and couldn’t agree more even if I think there are more...

Event command transformation in microservice architectures and DDD

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Saga: How to implement complex business transactions without two phase commit.

A good overview on Sagas can be found by watching the talk by Caitie McCaffrey: