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.

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

At SOOCon23, Abby Bangser delivered an insightful talk titled "Building a Great Internal Platform Starts with the API." Read the summary here!