https://blog.lynxflow.co/en/tags/workflows/Recent content in Workflows on Lynx Tech BlogHugo -- gohugo.ioenSun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0800https://blog.lynxflow.co/en/posts/2026-08-23-workflow-control-plane-selection/Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0800https://blog.lynxflow.co/en/posts/2026-08-23-workflow-control-plane-selection/<img src="https://blog.lynxflow.co/images/2026-08-23-control-plane-architecture-cover.png" alt="Featured image of post Installing a Control Plane for 'Script + Cron + Agent' Black-Box Automation: A Survey of 12 Platforms" /> TL;DR: What I need isn&rsquo;t another orchestration tool, but a Control Plane—a coordination layer that answers in one place: which workflow, which version, which run, which step failed, how many retries, when&rsquo;s the next run. cron only knows how to &ldquo;knock on time&rdquo; and then walks away. After surveying 11 platforms, my pick: Windmill first choice, Kestra co-selected; n8n/Temporal/Argo explicitly rejected; Hermes demoted to &ldquo;scheduled agent&rdquo; instead of scheduler.