You're building a piece of software, and what starts as a simple sequence of steps quickly morphs into a tangled web of "if this, then that," "wait for approval," and "what happens if it fails?" Real-world processes, whether it's an e-commerce order, a content publishing pipeline, or even just a user onboarding flow, are rarely linear.
State Machines vs Workflows
You're building a piece of software, and what starts as a simple sequence of steps quickly morphs into a tangled web of "if this, then that," "wait for approval," and "what happens if it fails?" Real-world processes, whether it's an e-commerce order, a content publishing pipeline, or even just a user onboarding flow, are rarely linear.