Workflow Engines & Event Streaming Brokers - Can They Work Together?

Workflow engines and event streaming brokers offer very different solutions to the same requirement - an optimal implementation of microservices communication.

At Wix, we have a good experience with event-driven architecture for our 2500 microservices using Apache Kafka. Apache Kafka provides:
- Support for very high throughput
- Fault tolerance
- Very loose coupling
- Huge connectors eco-system

Temporal workflow orchestration has interesting features:
- Support for long running tasks
- Business flows visual tracking
- Easy to follow imperative style programming

In this talk we will learn about the tradeoffs between the two technologies and how to implement various use cases in each architecture, including those that need a little more work.

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