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

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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