Reactive Microservice Orchestration with Camunda

Explore reactive microservice orchestration with Camunda in this CamundaCon 2019 conference talk. Dive into the challenges of implementing a complex microservice architecture for the insurance industry, focusing on business process orchestration using reactive services and Kafka streams. Learn how the Camunda platform enables the development of a non-blocking service orchestrator, integrating async services and Kafka event handlers while providing extensive monitoring and real-time tracing capabilities. Discover guiding principles, technical insights, and lessons learned from building a distributed platform that offers greater scalability and customization options from a single code base. Gain valuable knowledge on topics such as standardization vs. customization, async boundaries trade-offs, reactive execution, and error handling in action.

Intro
IT'S ALL ABOUT ORCHESTRATION
STANDARDISATION VS CUSTOMISATION
CUSTOMER JOURNEY #2
EACH REQUEST PRODUCES A BPMN EVENT
BPMN EXECUTION IS LARGELY SYNC
ASYNC BOUNDARIES HAVE TRADE-OFFS
REACTIVE IS THE WAY TO GO
CAMUNDA EXECUTED IN A REACTIVE CHAIN
1000 PARALLEL PROCESSES, 1 THREAD
Great topic for another Talk
ERROR HANDLING IN ACTION
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