Ersatzvortrag: Apache Kafka Meets Workflow Engines

Apache Kafka is an interesting technology with quite impressive use cases lately. One of its core promises is scalability. Over the last years, process automation and orchestration technology also progressed massively and can handle modern scalability and resiliency requirements (so it is not the dinosaur some people think it is). Time, to quickly recap what different tools and technologies bring to the table . Especially, as there are super interesting combinations between Kafka and a workflow engine possible, such as starting or influencing process instances upon certain events in a stream, orchestrating microservices by writing commands as Kafka records, or using Kafka to collect information about decentralized process executions.

In this talk, I will briefly introduce the technologies and walk you through these possibilities presenting real-life use cases and some sample code using open-source tools.