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Understanding flows

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Flows are a way to document business workflows in your organization. Flows help teams understand end-to-end flows across your organization and architecture.

An example of a flow could be user purchasing a product in an e-commerce store. They start by logging into a service, getting onboarded and purchasing something from a business. Across this journey may applications, databases, interactions are happening. Flows let you capture these.

You can reuse your documented resources (e.g services, messages, channels, data stores, data products) in your flows.

Example

Explore a flow​

Each flow gets a diagram you can explore:

  • Group by domain, system or team to see which parts of your architecture each step belongs to.
  • Walk through the flow one step at a time, choosing the way on at each branch.
  • Open the flow's Resources page from Quick Reference in the sidebar to see the services, messages, agents, data stores, data products and sub-flows its steps use.

See Explore flows for details.