In order to allow enterprises and developers to develop on the cloud more quickly and conveniently, Alibaba Cloud has released Cloud Workflow (CloudFlow), which is a powerful process orchestration development tool for developers , fully managed, high concurrency, high Available to help users simplify and automate complex cloud business processes and workflows, and build applications on the cloud more conveniently.
The emergence of cloud workflow has accelerated the arrival of the process development paradigm.
As Alibaba Cloud provides more and more comprehensive Serverless products, many cloud products have become modular, API-based, and service-based. Cloud workflows can be assembled for these products and applications can be built through drag-and-drop. Under the Serverless architecture, process development will become mainstream. Compared with the traditional model, process development can improve efficiency by more than 50%.
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Users can collect and distribute events through the event bus, quickly implement event processing and customized business logic through function computing, and orchestrate multiple cloud services or customized application components through workflows, thereby easily building elastic and highly available cloud native application. This development method can not only increase development speed, but also reduce development and operation and maintenance costs, further promoting the digital transformation of enterprises.
Make business process development simple and reliable
Cloud workflow (CloudFlow) has three major advantages:
- Visual orchestration, CloudFlow Studio graphical process orchestration, realizes complex business processes through rich control logic and simple drag and drop;
- Deeply integrated with cloud services, you can orchestrate 300+ cloud services to automate workflow without writing code;
- It can process multiple distributed tasks in parallel on a large scale, has complete process state management capabilities, is highly elastic, highly reliable, replayable, and has strong fault tolerance;
Specifically:
1. Visual development
- Process visualization: supports Workflow Studio graphical process editing.
- Logic visualization: Provides visual logic control components such as Choice, Parallel, Loop, Map, Wait, etc., and realizes complex business processes with simple drag and drop.
- Execution visualization: Visualized historical execution records to easily trace the workflow execution process.
- Debugging visualization: Provides visual and convenient online debugging capabilities, allowing you to complete process debugging and development with one click.
2. Ecological integration
- General cloud service integration: supports 300+ cloud services in computing, storage, database, big data, AI, ETL and other fields to access cloud workflow process nodes.
- Optimized integration of basic application architecture on the cloud: supports in-depth integration of cloud products such as Function Compute (FC), Object Storage (OSS), Cloud Message Queuing (MQ), and Database (DB).
- Business system integration: Supports HTTP protocol, general microservice protocol and other common business system protocol integration.
- Rich scheduling integration: integrated with the EventBridge ecosystem to support 900+ cloud product audit events; it also supports business events such as Cron, RocketMQ, Kafka, and third-party SaaS to trigger workflow execution.
3. High availability and high performance
- Supports multiple execution modes (Express, Standard) and serves both online and offline businesses;
- Support large-scale parallel processing of multiple distributed tasks;
- High-performance event-driven execution engine;
- Support complete process execution observation capabilities;
- High elasticity, high reliability, execution playback, and fault recovery;
- Supports platform-based integration capabilities and can be quickly integrated into customer business systems;
Applications
Multimedia processing case
Scenario description : Using cloud workflow can help you organize multiple tasks, such as transcoding, frame capture, face recognition, speech recognition, review and upload, etc., into a complete processing process, and submit media processing (IMM) through function computing Task (or self-built processor) to produce an output that meets business requirements. Execution error exceptions of each task can be retried reliably, greatly improving multimedia task processing throughput.
Data packet processing
Scenario description : Cloud workflow can group and customize data. For example, in the message grouping function, it can be classified according to a certain field in the message according to business semantics; grouped message storage, parallel iterative processing of multiple business grouping messages, will belong to Messages of the same business group are written into an OSS object; for group message compression, for each iteration, after the message of the business group is written through appending, it enters the compression environment of the data object and will be compressed according to the user settings. The threshold determines whether compression occurs.
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