# Limitations of BPMN and Legacy Orchestration Tools for Scaling and Development

DevFeed: [Limitations of BPMN and Legacy Orchestration Tools for Scaling and Development](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-bpmn-and-legacy-orchestration-tools-are-holding-you-back-35733.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://temporal.io/blog/bpmn-legacy-orchestration-tools-holding-you-back>)

Author: Lauren Bennett

Published: 2024-12-04T08:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Temporal Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/temporal-blog.md>)

Topics: [Orchestration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/orchestration.md>), [legacy](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/legacy.md>), [Scalability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/scalability.md>), [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>)

Tags: [advice](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/advice.md>), [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/how-to.md>), [legacy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/legacy.md>), [orchestration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/orchestration.md>), [scalability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scalability.md>)

## AI overview

This article discusses how BPMN and legacy orchestration tools can become bottlenecks as systems and workloads grow. It focuses on scalability challenges, integration difficulties, and development inefficiencies caused by complex visual workflows and proprietary or inflexible configuration languages.

## Source excerpt

Learn about the downsides of legacy orchestration tooling alongside examples from real companies and get advice to help your team improve your dev efficiency.