In my previous article, I’ve described how code can be used to semantically describe workflows in a distributed environment. But I did not explain how it can be used to actually pilot those workflows. …

As a back-end developer, you are often asked to build some structured orchestration of tasks such as microservices orchestrations, distributed transactions, data pipelines or some business logic. In all those examples you must ensure that the different types of tasks are processed according to a given scenario. This scenario can…

As soon as your technical team reaches a certain size, you usually start to divide your platform into specialized servers (aka microservices) that are individually more manageable by a dedicated small team. But those different services still need to smoothly work together to deliver your business goals. In this article…

After our seed round, we (I) did not manage to reach a clear product-market fit, nor did we change the product quickly enough in order to reach it. …

Getting started with Zenaton’s native integration with Clever Cloud — At Zenaton, our ambition is to offer a powerful workflow engine that is also easy to implement so that tech teams can spend more time writing code and business logic and less time maintaining infrastructure. To that end, we know that when implementing a new tool or service, it’s important…

From the early days of Zenaton, we have provided an easy way to orchestrate asynchronous jobs to build business processes. …

Zenaton was founded to help developers to code and run marketing and business processes such as: Why are these so important? The lean startup methodology has become common practice in the startup world and you know the importance of iterating on your ideas. For most companies, a big part of…

The most important feature of a marketplace is how it organizes communications between sellers and buyers. This article illustrates how it can easily be implemented using Zenaton, without any cron jobs, or database requests or modifications — just pure & simple code. The following examples are presented in PHP, but…

This week, a startup doing some vehicle tracking asked me if Zenaton could be used to send an ETA (estimated time of arrival) alert. The idea is to send an alert (text, email, push notification, etc) one hour before a vehicle arrives at its destination. So here is an example…