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6.42Orchestration vs choreography

You might hear these terms.

One central workflow tells components what to do:

Mule
 ↓
Salesforce
 ↓
Billing
 ↓
ERP

Mule knows the overall process.

Systems react to events:

OrderCreated
   ↓
Salesforce consumer

OrderCreated
   ↓
Billing consumer

OrderCreated
   ↓
Analytics consumer

No single component necessarily drives the entire process.

For this bootcamp:

Mule flow
→ orchestration

is the main model.

Later asynchronous event patterns introduce more choreography.