BPT Is Not a Workflow — And Why That Word Has Been Hijacked
“Workflow” is one word doing three jobs, and the collision is costing organizations clarity about what they actually own. Here’s the untangling. Three things, one word WORKFLOW 20206 aka WFL2026 — the implementation artifact. This is Dapr and Temporal, and their relatives: code-first, durable orchestration for distributed systems. It persists state, survives crashes, manages retries. It exists because modern applications are constellations of microservices and AI agents landing as containers, and someone has to keep track of where each one is in its execution. It lives entirely in Technology (T), and it’s optional — a system can be built without it. ...