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Practical Process Automation: Orchestration and Integration in Microservices and Cloud Native Architectures 1st Edition


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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

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About This Book

Process Automation Tools and Techniques

There are many ways to automate processes, from plain software development to batch processing, event-driven microservices, and any other development practice you can think of.

But automating processes has specific characteristics & requirements, and there is dedicated software built for addressing these. Analysts define different software market categories that are related to process automation: for example, digital process automation (DPA), intelligent business process management suites (iBPMSs), low-code platforms, robotic process automation (RPA), microservice orchestration, process orchestration, process monitoring, process mining, decision support, & automation.

All the different software categories provide tools & technologies that allow organizations to coordinate, automate, and improve business processes. These processes can include people, software, decisions, bots, and things.

That’s a broad scope. So what will we focus on in this book?

The Scope of This Book

This book looks at how process automation can be applied in modern system architectures and software development practices. It examines how tool support needs to look like to become a vital part of every developer’s toolbox. It demonstrates that the core component to make this happen is a lightweight and developer-friendly workflow engine, which will be explored in great detail throughout the book.

Along the way, we’ll discuss some typical misconceptions. Workflow engines are not alien in software development, like some people may expect. And even if neither analyst reports nor tools from big vendors are particularly developer-focused or developer-friendly, there are alternative tools available today, as you will see throughout this book. Some of these might not fit into the categories mentioned earlier, but others do.

That said, I will not dedicate a lot of time to what analysts say about process automation software, but focus on giving practical advice about workflow engines in the context of software development in modern architectures. In this context, I will weave together ideas from microservices, event-driven systems, and domain-driven design.

This might give you a new perspective on process automation.

Who This Book Is For

This book targets software developers and software or system architects who want to learn about process automation.

If you are a software developer, you might want to use a workflow engine in your application, service, or microservice to solve hands-on problems. This book will help you understand which problems a workflow engine can solve for you, and how to get started.

If you are a system architect, this book will help you understand opportunities and pitfalls around process automation. It will guide you through some tough architectural decisions and trade-offs, including how using a workflow engine compares to alternative approaches or whether a workflow engine should be operated centrally.

But you can also benefit if you work in other roles. For example:

- If you are an IT manager, this book can help you make better-informed decisions and ask the right questions internally.

- If you are a business analyst, this book can help you if you are motivated to think outside the box and understand the technical side of things.

Overall, you will need some general experience in the field of software engineering, but no other specific knowledge.

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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.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ O'Reilly Media; 1st edition (April 20, 2021)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 292 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 149206145X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1492061458
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 0.62 x 9.19 inches

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I have been the in the software development field for more than 15 years, automating highly scalable workflows at global companies including T-Mobile, Lufthansa and Zalando and contributing to various open source workflow engines.

I’m Co-Founder and Chief Technologist of Camunda – an open source software company reinventing workflow automation.

Along with my Co-Founder, I wrote "Real-Life BPMN," a popular book about workflow modeling and automation. I regularly speak at international conferences and write for various magazines, focusing on new workflow automation paradigms that fit into modern architectures around distributed systems, microservices, domain-driven design, event-driven architecture and reactive systems.

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  • Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2021
    Bernd knows process automation like he knows his own name, which makes him uniquely able to distill complex (to me, at least) principles down to, indeed, practical components. I’m very glad I bought this book.
  • Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2021
    Low code options aren't practical for most real world use cases. This book it!
  • Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2022
    The book gives a great overview on why process automation isn't something done by people in white lab coats but is an integral part of modern software architecture. I particularly enjoyed that the author (who is the co-foiunder of a popular open source BPMN tool) keeps a very balanced view, highlighting trade-offs. This makes the book worth a read for every software engineer,
  • Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2021
    The author does an excellent job describing the challenges we experience when attempting to track/manage long running processes, especially when working with microservices.
    I'm a veteran architect, and worked with and engineered many low code solutions which always have short comings.
    The "wild west" architecture is all too common in the real-world, and this book accurately identifies the root of the problems and presents efficient and thought provoking solutions.
    There are plenty of practical generalizations that are helpful for any application of automation - and since I finished the book a few days ago, I've already encountered multiple opportunities for implementing the solutions described in the book.

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  • Saket Mishra
    5.0 out of 5 stars Easy explanation
    Reviewed in India on January 21, 2022
    Must read book for software architects.
  • Rapaces
    3.0 out of 5 stars First 150 pages
    Reviewed in France on January 13, 2022
    The first half of the book was mostly relevant and insightful. Maybe because I am not a developer.
  • Thomas Moerman
    5.0 out of 5 stars Mandatory reading for microservice architects
    Reviewed in the Netherlands on November 13, 2021
    Must-read if you are involved in microservices. The book offers very useful guidance in making sense of the different forces that apply in a microservices context, using process automation as the backbone perspective. Highly recommended, read cover-to-cover.
  • Sivaramakrishnan
    5.0 out of 5 stars Enriching experience
    Reviewed in India on June 3, 2021
    Author seems to be giving majority perspective from camunda BPM world , it was good to go through the book