The latest articles on DEV Community by Spencer (@spencerpro). https://dev.to/spencerpro https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F486886%2F2f5bbd2e-646a-4a9b-85ca-f0ded299e144.jpeg https://dev.to/spencerpro en Spencer Sun, 11 Oct 2020 18:26:15 +0000 https://dev.to/spencerpro/request-articles-books-foss-for-persisted-state-machine-workflow-4laf https://dev.to/spencerpro/request-articles-books-foss-for-persisted-state-machine-workflow-4laf <p>I’ve been thinking about all the persisted State Machine Workflow implementations I’ve refactored, created, maintained, or otherwise interacted with in various places. I’m trying to do a survey of best practices. If anyone has good sources of books, blogs, etc., I’d appreciate it. It seems like simple state machines are used everywhere and I’ve seen a lot of patterns both good and bad, but they’re too simple for anyone to write much about.</p> <p>On the other hand, the more complex workflows, like Petri Net, BPM, and Orchestration have tons of published articles and software. There are also tons of articles and software for non-persisted Finite State Machines in GUI and other applications, and that’s not what I’m talking about either.</p> <p>I’m going to write articles about what I find, focus on the pragmatic side, things like operational load and maintenance costs.</p> statemachine workflow design devops