flowservice
Flowservice is a software pattern and, in some contexts, a product category for managing the execution and governance of flows in distributed applications. It provides an abstraction that coordinates data and control across producers, processors, and consumers, enabling dynamic routing, transformation, and stateful processing of sequences of tasks.
Key concepts include flow definitions (the steps, conditions, and data formats), a flow engine or orchestrator
Architecturally, a flowservice typically includes a repository for flow definitions, an execution engine, input/output connectors or
Common use cases include data integration and ETL, microservice orchestration or choreography, real-time analytics pipelines, IoT
The term is used variably and may denote a generic pattern or vendor-specific product. See also workflow