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Bridging the world of Event Storming and BPMN

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In a recent post , Bernd Ruecker made a nice post on a pattern to transform events to commands in MicroServices and DDD. The post discusses the differences between Choreography and Orchestration as two major styles in which various micro-services can be connected and the pros and cons of these styles. Creating business process based systems using DDD is something I've been working on quite a bit. In this post, I would like to take this one step further and also show how the worlds of BPMN and DDD have a very nice fit, even b eyond than just this pattern. To do this, I'm going to make a connec tion between BP MN and a prominent style of analysis in the DDD world - Event Storming by Alberto Brandolini . Also, I'd like to dive into how the strategic design parts of DDD can help us in guiding us where we would like to apply these patterns. The latter will be subject of a later post. Event Storming First things first, lets look at Event Storming and how it is used in DD...