Workflow

Comparisons

Orchestration/Workflow Engines vs Rules/Process Engines

• Rules Engine: Choose when you need to centralize complex business logic, codify a large set of rules and decisions, and require clarity around why certain decisions are made.
• Process Engine: Choose when you have structured business processes with well-defined steps and a need for visual process flow representation (BPMN).
• Orchestration Framework: Use when you need to coordinate activities across multiple microservices, manage long-running processes that span multiple systems, or require fault tolerance and scalability in a distributed environment
• Rules/process engines are often used for decision automation and process automation within a single application,
• orchestration frameworks are more suitable for orchestrating distributed, event-driven workflows involving multiple services or external systems.
• In practice, these two paradigms can be combined, where orchestration frameworks can leverage rules/process engines for decision-making or process automation within individual tasks or steps of a larger orchestration workflow.

Resources

• https://github.com/meirwah/awesome-workflow-engines

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Children

1. Library

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Backlinks

• An Ontological Analysis of Business Process Modeling and Execution
• Rule Engine
• Orchestration