Books

Currently writing
Agentic Orchestration

From Agent Pilots to Enterprise Production

Early Access
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

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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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...