Practical Process Automation

Bernd Ruecker

Mar 2021 · "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

About this ebook

In today's IT architectures, microservices and serverless functions play increasingly important roles in process automation. But how do you create meaningful, comprehensive, and connected business solutions when the individual components are decoupled and independent by design? Targeted at developers and architects, this book presents a framework through examples, practical advice, and use cases to help you design and automate complex processes.

As systems are more distributed, asynchronous, and reactive, process automation requires state handling to deal with long-running interactions. Author Bernd Ruecker demonstrates how to leverage process automation technology like workflow engines to orchestrate software, humans, decisions, or bots.

• Learn how modern process automation compares to business process management, service-oriented architecture, batch processing, event streaming, and data pipeline solutions
• Understand how to use workflow engines and executable process models with BPMN
• Understand the difference between orchestration and choreography and how to balance both

About the author

Bernd Ruecker is a software developer by heart and has been innovating process automation deployed in highly scalable and agile environments of industry leaders such as T-Mobile, Lufthansa, ING, and Atlassian. He’s focused on new process automation paradigms that fit into modern architectures around distributed systems, microservices, domain-driven design, event-driven architecture, and reactive systems. Bernd has been contributing to various open-source workflow engines for more than 15 years and is the cofounder and chief technologist of Camunda—an open source software company reinventing process automation. He’s a coauthor of the popular book Real-Life BPMN, now in its sixth edition and available in English, German, and Spanish, as well as a sought-after speaker at conferences around the world and a frequent contributor to several technology publications.