Orchestration vs. Choreography: The Good, the Bad, and the Trade-offs

This 42-minute conference talk from Devoxx Greece 2025 features speaker Laila Bougria exploring the critical differences between orchestration and choreography in microservice architectures. Dive into practical banking industry examples based on nearly five years of experience to understand how these coordination techniques help manage complexity in interservice communication. Learn to develop a decision-making framework that goes beyond theoretical pros and cons, enabling you to determine which pattern best suits your specific use case. Discover how to ask the right questions and evaluate relevant tradeoffs to transform abstract architectural concepts into practical implementation decisions for complex workflow design in distributed systems.