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I wonder what the state of workflow engines is these days. Back in the (distant, distant) past, everything seemed to use Lotus Notes. Today, there are oodles of
by CobrastanJorji 8mo ago
I wonder what the state of workflow engines is these days. Back in the (distant, distant) past, everything seemed to use Lotus Notes. Today, there are oodles of workflow engines of all shapes and sizes, but asides from domain-specific stuff like Salesforce, I hardly hear anyone mention them.
- j45 8mo agoI helped a legacy Lotus Notes application reincarnate once, and it was impressive how reasonably solid it's ability was to be offline-first, and mobile first, and how fewer sychronization/replication errors there were than I expected.
- CobrastanJorji 8mo agoLotus Notes was doing decentralized apps built with NoSQL databases before either of those things were cool. Mostly because "going online" was potentially quite an undertaking at the time.
- j45 8mo agoAgreed - Lotus Notes def is an example of a working NoSQL database that scales in relating data as well where other noSQL databases only dream of. Being offline-first has it's advantages too.
- shakna 8mo agoSalesforce is used well beyond its domain, unfortunately. A lot of BAs love the drag 'n drop design features.