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Microservices Communication Patterns (Saga, Circuit Breaker) · Lesson

Implementing with a Workflow Engine

Discover how workflow engines or specialized libraries can simplify the implementation of complex orchestration sagas.

Sagas & Workflow Engines

Orchestration sagas can become complex, especially when dealing with many steps, retries, and compensation logic.

Manually managing this state across multiple services can be a huge challenge. This is where workflow engines or specialized libraries come in handy!

What is a Workflow Engine?

A workflow engine is a software component that helps define, execute, and monitor long-running processes or 'workflows'.

  • It manages the state of a process.
  • It ensures tasks are executed in the correct order.
  • It handles failures and retries automatically.

All lessons in this course

  1. Designing Saga Orchestrators
  2. State Machines for Orchestration
  3. Implementing with a Workflow Engine
  4. Testing Orchestrated Sagas
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