Workflow Orchestration
Workflow orchestration is the automated coordination and management of complex, multi-step processes or tasks across distributed systems, applications, or services. It involves defining, scheduling, executing, and monitoring workflows to ensure reliable, efficient, and scalable execution of business or technical operations. This concept is central to data pipelines, microservices, and automation in modern software architectures.
Developers should learn workflow orchestration when building systems that require reliable execution of interdependent tasks, such as ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) pipelines, batch processing, or automated deployments. It is essential for managing complexity, handling failures gracefully, and ensuring reproducibility in distributed environments, making it a key skill for data engineering, DevOps, and cloud-native applications.