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.NET Inline C# Action Feature in Logic Apps: More Flexibility and Control for Developers
Microsoft has announced a significant enhancement to its Azure Logic Apps service by introducing .NET C# inline code execution. This new feature enables developers to call C# code directly within their workflows, providing greater flexibility and control over custom logic and complex operations.
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Microsoft Introduces Azure Integration Environments and Business Process Tracking in Public Preview
Microsoft recently introduced Azure Integration Environments in public preview, a new capability that allows organizations to assemble their resources into logical groupings to manage and monitor their integration resources more effectively.
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New Observability Features for AWS Step Functions
Recently, AWS announced a new opt-in capability on the state-machine page for Step Functions. Developers can quickly analyze, debug, and optimize Standard Workflows by enabling the new execution page option.
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IBM Introduces Watson Orchestrate for Task Automation
At the recent Think conference, IBM introduces an AI-powered automation tool called Watson Orchestrate. It is currently in preview in IBM Cloud Paks for Automation and expected to be generally available later in 2021 as an SaaS offering.
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Google Announces General Availability of the Automation Capability for Appsheet
Recently, Google announced the general availability of AppSheets Automation, an additional capability to AppSheet, the company’s no-code development platform. With Automation, customers can automate repetitive tasks and business processes.
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Event Streams and Workflow Engines – Kafka and Zeebe
In a recent joint meeting in Amsterdam, Kai Waehner described features of Apache Kafka, a distributed streaming platform, and how it fits in an Event-Driven Architecture. Bernd Rücker described how workflow engines can handle complex business processes, and discussed how Zeebe, a new highly scalable workflow engine, can be used with Kafka.
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Intelligent Automation on Pace for Explosive Growth, But Organizational Challenges Prevalent
In a recent KPMG study, the professional services organization published a report on the growth of Intelligent Automation. The report suggests that overall spend will reach $232 billion by 2025, compared to $12.4 billion which is spent today. But, this expected growth comes with many challenges, including tool maturity, skilled labor and organizational change management.
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How Blockchain is Reinventing Business Process Management
In a recent Hyperledger post, Jesse Chenard discusses how blockchain is poised to reinvent traditional Business Process Management platforms. A challenge with existing BPM platforms is that data is usually stored in organizational silos and challenges exist in exchanging counterparty transactions. A blockchain solution can provide auditing across boundaries, without leaking sensitive information.
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Business Processes, Long-Running Services and Microservices
During recent years domain events are increasingly being discussed, but we should be discussing commands just as much, Martin Schimak explained at the recent DDD eXchange 2018 conference, where he covered events, command and long-running services in a microservices world, and how process managers and similar tooling can help in running core business logic.
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Common Pitfalls in Microservice Integration: Bernd Rücker at QCon London
In a microservices architecture, every microservice is a separate application, with its own data storage and communicating over a network. This creates an environment that is highly distributed, and with that come challenges, Bernd Rücker explained in his presentation at QCon London 2018, exploring common pitfalls in microservice integration and solutions that include workflow engines.
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Blockchain and Smart Contracts in a Business Process
Buying something through an internet portal, for example a car, normally involves two parties who don’t trust each other; a buyer and a seller. The portal is just a broker so either the buyer must transfer money before getting the ordered item, or the seller must send the item before getting the money. To overcome this lack of mutual trust, Bernd Rücker claims that a blockchain can be used.
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Process Managers in Event-Based Systems
Publishing events to notify about changes in a domain keeps different domains decoupled from each other, but if there really is a logical flow of events it becomes implicit and hard to follow. A better solution is to use a Process Manager to keep track of the overall process, Bernd Rücker stated in his presentation at this year’s DDD eXchange conference.
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Stop Over-Engineering, Build What the Customer Really Needs
After working with many different teams, Greg Young has found that they often are drastically over-engineeringing in their projects. Teams start to work on 9 month projects, but by thinking on the problem from another perspective they may be able to deliver 95% of the value in just a few weeks, Young claimed in his keynote at the recent DDD eXchange conference in London.
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AnyPresence Soups-up Enterprise MBaaS Platform:Part 2 of 2
There is so much to learn about the latest Mobile Backend as a Service provider AnyPresence's 5.0 platform geared for the enterprise that this second post was needed. Co-founder Rich Mendis provides further insight for InfoQ readers…
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AnyPresence Soups up Enterprise MBaaS Platform- Part 1 of 2
Mobile Backend as a Service provider AnyPresence continues to hone their chops. Launching the fifth update to their self-titled platform geared for the enterprise. Co-founder Rich Mendis provides some insights for InfoQ readers…