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

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:

Flowing-retail: Demonstrating aspects of microservices, events and their flow with concrete source…

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How to implement long running flows, sagas, business processes or similar

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What are long running processes?

Hint: My goal is not to give a scientific definition. I just want to write down my current thoughts as an anchor for potential discussions, so I’m looking fo...

The 7 sins of workflow

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