Jan 17, 2020
Announcing Zeebe 0.22 and Operate 1.2 (Plus A Webinar!)
Happy New Year, Zeebots! We’re excited to kick off 2020 with the release of Zeebe 0.22 and Operate 1.2. These are the second minor Zeebe and Operate releases since going production ready in July 2019, and our dev team has made significant progress in the past quarter. If you’d like to get started right away, please refer to the Zeebe docs for instructions on how to download a release. Oh, and did we mention our New Year’s resolution? Webinars. More Zeebe webinars. And so we invite you to join us on Wednesday, January 22 at 5pm Central European Time / 11am US Eastern Standard Time for a webinar with Zeebe developer advocates Josh Wulf and Mauricio Salatino and Camunda CTO…
Dec 30, 2019
2019: A Plethora of new Product Releases and Community Activity
A Year of Releases At Camunda, we’re all about continuous improvement. We love talking to our customers and user community to understand how our products can even better solve their process automation problems. In that spirit, we released two new versions of our Camunda BPM platform that included a lot of community driven enhancements. The most recent release, 7.12, made its debut right on schedule at the end of November. And just this week, we released our fourth Optimize update of 2019, with 2.7 now ready and available to deliver deep process insights. Alongside, we’ve released some very special products this year. Camunda Cloud At September’s CamundaCon CTO Daniel Meyer officially launched Camunda Cloud – the first ever BPMN-based workflow…
Dec 23, 2019
Ubiquitous Process Management for Industry 4.0 – Processes do not end in the Office
Björn Richerzhagen, long-time Camunda advocate and owner of MINAUTICS, a consultancy for model-based management, has used Camunda BPM for prototyping scenarios in the manufacturing industry. In this blog post, he describes an automated end-to-end processes that include machinery – an approach for smart factory automation and Industry 4.0. Digitalization in the manufacturing industry – More than just a trend. Digital production or “Industry 4.0” must address digitalization, just like the industries Jakob Freund described in his blog series – How to (not) become a Digital Enterprise. In the manufacturing world, workflow automation has so far been used almost exclusively in commercial support processes such as accounting, personnel or purchasing. This helps to reduce overhead costs, but companies only gain a…
Dec 22, 2019
Performance Profiling Zeebe
We frequently get questions about Zeebe’s performance. The answer to any performance question is easy: “It depends“. In this post, Zeebe Developer Advocate Josh Wulf and Zeebe Community member Klaus Nji talk about what it depends on, and how you can get performance benchmarks that answer the question that you actually want to answer: “Can Zeebe do what I need it to do, and how do I need to configure it to do that?“ As Albert Einstein famously said: “There are lies, damned lies, and then there are benchmarks” (or was that Aristotle?) Every system has a performance envelope. It is multi-dimensional, and its boundaries change in response to different variables. How the boundaries change and the rate of that…
Dec 20, 2019
Announcing Camunda Optimize 2.7.0
We’re excited to announce the release of Camunda Optimize 2.7.0. Optimize provides business activity monitoring for workflows, supporting continuous process improvement by providing transparency into your automated workflows and decisions. Business-friendly reports, dashboards, and alerts make it possible to identify process bottlenecks and improve end-to-end processes. If you’d like to learn more about the release and ask our product team questions, we invite you to join us for the Optimize 2.7 webinar on Tuesday, January 7, 2020. Feel free to sign up even if you can’t attend the webinar live–we’ll email a recording to all registrants. If you’d like to get started with Optimize 2.7 right away, you can download the release here with your Camunda Enterprise Platform customer credentials….
By Mike Winters
Dec 20, 2019
Zeebe Kubernetes Operator (experimental)
I am happy to announce the experimental release of the Zeebe Kubernetes Operator. If you are looking at Zeebe and Kubernetes together the Zeebe Kubernetes Operator should improve your journey to provision and manage Zeebe Clusters. Here is a more detailed blog post about how to use it and how it works. This are very early stages of the project, that means it is a great time to get involved, provide feedback and if you are interested get in touch to work on some issues. Get in touch Is there a Zeebe topic that you’d like to see explored more deeply in a blog post? Let our dev advocates know on Twitter! Josh Salaboy Questions? Feedback? If you have questions…
Dec 9, 2019
Zeebe and Operate Alpha Releases: December 2019 Edition
We’re back with another round of Zeebe and Operate alpha releases just in time for the end of 2019, and we’re excited to share what’s new. You can find out how to get started with Zeebe and Operate in the docs. In the rest of the post, we’ll highlight the new capabilities included in this release. BPMN Support in Zeebe: Event Subprocess with Message Start Event In our November 2019 alpha release post, we announced support for the timer event subprocess, and with this alpha2 release, we’ve added support for the interrupting and non-interrupting message event subprocess, too. As an example, let’s refer to our typical e-commerce order fulfillment process. Imagine that some items in a customer’s order aren’t always…
Dec 3, 2019
Going to Zero-Scale Zeebe on Camunda Cloud with Cloudflare Workers
I get questions about running Zeebe at “zero-scale”. That means workers that consume no resources when there are no tasks to perform. The Zeebe service on Camunda Cloud includes a generic HTTP-Worker that can be used to achieve this. The HTTP-Worker polls for jobs of type “Camunda-HTTP”, and then invokes a REST endpoint based on the HTTP verb and URL set in the task headers. If you are not on Camunda Cloud you can use zeebe-http-worker, or just write your own. In combination with “serverless” functions, this can be used to achieve a zero-scale architecture. Cloudflare workers are serverless processes that run in response to REST requests at the edge of Cloudflare’s hosting infrastructure. “At the edge” means that a…
By Josh Wulf
Dec 2, 2019
More From Camunda BPM: Node.js/Java External Task Client 1.3.0, Spring Boot Starter 3.4.0 & Assert 5.0.0
We are excited to announce the following releases: External Task Clients 1.3.0 for Node.js & Java Spring Boot Starter 3.4.0 Assert 5.0.0 You can read all about the Camunda BPM 7.12.0 release in the dedicated blog post.
