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Elsa Workflows and AWS Step Functions are both workflow orchestration tools, but they have different design philosophies and are intended for different ecosystems. Elsa Workflows is an open-source, .NET-based library that allows you to create workflows programmatically or visually within your .NET applications. It is highly extensible, allowing for custom activities and seamless integration with other systems. Elsa can be hosted within an application or separately, and it supports long-running workflows, event-driven workflows, and more. It is designed to be lightweight and flexible, fitting into a variety of scenarios from simple task automation to complex business process management. AWS Step Functions, on the other hand, is a fully managed service provided by AWS that enables you to coordinate multiple AWS services into serverless workflows. It is deeply integrated with the AWS ecosystem and is designed to be highly scalable and reliable, with built-in error handling and state management. Step Functions is a good choice if you are already heavily invested in AWS services and need to coordinate those services in a serverless environment. Regarding scalability, Elsa is built on .NET and is inherently scalable. It can be deployed in a load-balanced environment and can use MassTransit for dispatching workflows, which is a message bus for .NET that provides support for distributed systems. This means that you can indeed run multiple instances of the Elsa Server, and with the correct configuration, it should work out of the box. However, the actual scalability and performance will depend on your specific implementation and infrastructure. For your SaaS application, if you are already using .NET and have workflows that are .NET-centric, Elsa might be a more natural fit. If you are using AWS services extensively and need tight integration with those services, AWS Step Functions could be more appropriate. In terms of documentation and community support, Elsa has a growing community and documentation available on their official website, GitHub, and Stack Overflow. For specific scalability and performance benchmarks, you might want to look into the community discussions or reach out directly to the Elsa community for insights from real-world use cases. This comment was generated by Glime. |
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Hi there,
I came across Elsa recently and I love it.
I am working on a SaaS application, not exactly E-Commerce but close to that.
I need to create and orchestrate many workflows to create data in external systems, send emails, generate pdfs etc.
How would you compare Elsa against AWS Step functions?
Elsa has an integration with MassTransit to dispatch workflows. But how scalable is that? Does that mean you can run multiple instances of the Elsa Server and it would just work out of the box?
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