Building a Resilient K2 Service Broker
Patterns for service brokers that survive flaky endpoints: sensible timeouts, retries with backoff, and honest error surfacing.
Principal Consultant
K2 / Nintex specialist. I build and write about enterprise automation, the custom controls and brokers around it, and the engineering that holds it together. This is where the writing and the tools live.
Patterns for service brokers that survive flaky endpoints: sensible timeouts, retries with backoff, and honest error surfacing.
Hard-won notes on building K2 custom controls that behave, from data binding to the runtime quirks nobody documents.
A service broker that exposes SharePoint list operations as SmartObject methods over the REST API, with retry and paging built in.
A K2 custom control for multi-select lookups backed by a SmartObject, with typeahead filtering and clean data binding.
A small command line tool to export SmartObject data to CSV or JSON in bulk, with filtering and batching.
Tools and notes from real K2 / Nintex work. If something here is useful, or you want a hand with yours, reach out.