Smarter Architecture: Orchestrating Workflows & AI-Driven Modernisation

For our November meet-up, we will be welcoming Christopher Daly & Samson Nwizugbe

**Samson Nwizugbe** \- Process Managers\, Not Process\-Aware Aggregates: Coordinating Long\-Running Workflows in DDD with Wolverine

When a workflow spans several aggregates, the logic tends to end up in one of two bad places. Either it sits in a god-class orchestrator that knows too much about everything downstream, or it leaks into the aggregates themselves until they're tracking steps, waiting on other aggregates and making decisions that have nothing to do with their own invariants.

This talk walks through using Wolverine's Saga support as a dedicated process manager. It reacts to domain events, tracks where the workflow has got to and sends the next command, so your aggregates stay focused on their own rules. We'll look at keeping the process manager thin (routing and state, not business rules), handling timeouts, retries and out-of-order messages, and how to tell when an aggregate is becoming proc