Orchestration

Orchestration is the machinery that actually executes workflows and keeps them honest. It schedules runs, passes results from one step to the next, retries a step that failed for a transient reason, and holds the state of a job that spans minutes or days.

Good orchestration is why an automation survives a flaky third-party service or a mid-run error instead of silently dropping the task. It is the difference between a script that works on a good day and a system you can depend on.