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Beyond Portals and Pipelines: Where Workflow Engines Help (and Where They Don’t)

Workflow engines are having a moment in platform engineering. Tools like Temporal, Camunda, or n8n are being adopted to manage stateful automation, retries, and human approvals. They’re powerful, but they’re not platforms. This post distils the workflow-engine thread from our webinar “Beyond the Platform Facade: Why Portals and Pipelines Aren’t Enough,” which Abby hosted and I presented.

Daniel Bryant

Sep 26, 20254 min read

Beyond the Platform Façade: Escaping the Portals and Pipelines Trap

Learn more about the platform engineering portals and pipelines antipatterns, and understand why platform orchestration is essential

Daniel Bryant

Jul 29, 20256 min read