How to Get Started With Practical Process Automation

Explore process automation in this insightful GOTO Book Club interview featuring Bernd Rücker, author of "Practical Process Automation" and co-founder at Camunda, and Richard Seroter, director of product management at Google Cloud. Discover the fundamentals of process automation, its importance for developers, and how it can benefit companies. Learn about best practices, anti-patterns, and the differences between orchestration and choreography. Gain valuable insights on creating developer-friendly systems, using embedded engines, and improving business metrics through process automation. Get practical advice on how to start implementing process automation and understand its business case. Whether you're a developer, manager, or business professional, this discussion offers valuable knowledge to enhance your understanding of modern process automation techniques and their real-world applications.

Intro
Process automation: What it is & why devs should care about it
Who designs processes in a company?
What goes in the model vs the code?
Why does process automation have a bad reputation?
How can you make a developer-friendly system?
Embedded engines
Orchestration vs choreography
Using process automation to improve business metrics
Best practices for process automation
How to get started with process automation?
A business case for process automation
Outro