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

Bernd Rücker has been 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. He is the Co-Founder and Chief Technologist of Camunda - an open-source software company reinventing workflow automation. Along with his Co-Founder, he wrote "Real-Life BPMN," a popular book about workflow modeling and automation, which is now in its sixth edition and available in English, German and Spanish. Today, Bernd regularly speaks at international conferences and writes 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.