Serverless Workflow 1.0.0 Release
🎉 Celebrating the 1.0.0 Release of the Serverless Workflow Specification - Five Years in the Making ! 🎉
It’s been half a decade since the first release of the Serverless Workflow Specification, and we’re proud to share our biggest milestone yet: Version 1.0.0. This marks a new era of event-driven, function-centric, and service-oriented workflow design—backed by a vibrant community and robust ecosystem.
⭐ Key Enhancements and Features ⭐
- ✅ Refined Grammar & Semantics – Cleaner, more readable DSL for effortless workflow design.
- ✅ Unified Task Concept – Merge states and actions into tasks, simplifying definitions and removing nesting limits.
- ✅ Easy Function Invocation – Seamlessly call HTTP, gRPC, OpenAPI, or AsyncAPI services.
- ✅ Event Driven – Ingest events for real-time triggers and correlations.
- ✅ Streaming Support – Leverage AsyncAPI and CloudEvent subscriptions for continuous data flow.
- ✅ Fault Tolerance & Timeouts – Built-in error handling, retries, and timeout management for greater reliability.
- ✅ Scheduling & Concurrency – CRON-based triggers and parallel event handling let you run workflows exactly when—and how—you need.
- ✅ Extensibility – Extend or override the DSL without writing extra code, ensuring runtime-agnostic portability.
- ✅ Code Reusability & Maintainability – Scale effortlessly with cleaner, modular definitions.
- ✅ Behavior Driven Design – Gherkin-based features ensure consistent, standardized testing and implementations.
💡 Why this Matters 💡
Serverless Workflow 1.0.0 makes building reliable, event-driven, and function-centric systems easier than ever—whether you’re running on public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid environments. The result? Faster development, resilient architectures, and streamlined operations at scale.
📢 Get Involved 📢
A heartfelt thank you to the entire community—contributors, maintainers, and adopters—who have shaped and refined this specification over the last five years. We couldn’t have done it without you!
- ➜ Check out the Official Docs: https://github.com/serverlessworkflow/specification/blob/main/README.md
- ➜ Join the Conversation: https://cloud-native.slack.com/?redir=%2Fmessages%2Fserverless-workflow
- ➜ Contribute: Your ideas, feedback, and experiences are what keep the Serverless Workflow Specification thriving.