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At the risk of sounding like a Microsoft shill (I'm not), you can already have your cake and eat it if you use Windows Workflow on top of AppFabric. It has an

by bwarp 15y ago

At the risk of sounding like a Microsoft shill (I'm not), you can already have your cake and eat it if you use Windows Workflow on top of AppFabric. It has an arguably better feature set (including extensive transaction, correlation, failover, load balancing support), is extremely robust and can be deployed on EC2 or your own infrastructure (or both at the same time - you can scale your workers up on EC2 for example). The learning curve to do something useful is about 2 days. It's pretty cool actually.

dbattaglia 15y ago
> At the risk of sounding like a Microsoft shill (I'm not), you can already have your cake and eat it if you use Windows Workflow on top of AppFabric. I've been researching/demoing App Fabric at my job for a few weeks now to possibly use for our new SOA layer, and that was the first thing I thought when I saw the SWF email from Amazon this morning. Of course anyone not working in IIS or Azure (ie Linux or AWS) would get no benefit out of App Fabric, and this could be an excellent alternative regardless (judging by the high quality of Amazon's other services I mean).