Episode 351 - Bernd Rücker on Orchestrating Microservices with Workflow Management

Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers · Jan 10, 2019 · 1h 4m

Bernd Rücker, who has contributed to multiple open source workflow management projects, discusses orchestrating microservices with workflow management. As distributed systems evolve into a family of microservices that must handle long-running stateful processes with time-dependent actions, events, multiple paths through the system, and complex rollbacks, the workflow management model provides a way to ensure clear modeling, correctness, and separation of concerns. Rücker recommends a federated model in which each microservice is paired with its own workflow to handle retries and other…