Nov 9, 2019
Podcast: Zeebe with NestJS
The latest episode of the Camunda Nation podcast is now live, featuring Dan Shapir, CTO of Israeli/Australian fintech company Pay-K, and the author of the Zeebe NestJS integration, as our guest. We talk about Zeebe; NestJS; building reliable, refactorable applications at scale; and hiring developers in one of the most competitive markets in the world. Enjoy!
By Josh Wulf
Nov 4, 2019
How to (not) become a digital Enterprise – Bringing Technology to the Heart of your Company
This blog post is the third of a five-part series based on the keynote I presented at CamundaCon 2019 (You can find the recording on YouTube). You can read the first blog in this series here.
By Jakob Freund
Nov 3, 2019
Operational Monitoring: Zeebe Cloud Canary
Designing a resilient system means planning for, and alerting on various failure states. The Zeebe Cloud Canary npm package adds alerting to your Node.js Zeebe applications. There are a few things that can go wrong in a Zeebe system that you definitely want to surface operationally. Your client applications might exception and halt. The broker might fail – whether due to a hardware failure or some edge-case condition that puts it in an infinite restart loop while recovering (it could be memory constrained, for example, and rescheduled by K8s before it can recover its state on boot up). Both of these cases can be detected by probes. The broker has a readiness probe that can be monitored for this, and…
By Josh Wulf
Nov 1, 2019
Camunda Optimize 2.7.0-alpha1 Released
We are happy to announce the release of Camunda Optimize version 2.7.0-alpha1. You can find improvements and features for the upcoming Optimize version 2.7.0 in this first alpha release, including: Executing or Pending Flow Node Filter Process Instance Durations in Raw Data Table Alerts moved into Collections User and Group Search for Collections Copy of Collections The complete release notes are available in Jira.
Oct 31, 2019
Camunda BPM 7.12.0-alpha5 Released
Camunda BPM 7.12.0-alpha5 is here and the highlights are: Comments on Process Instance Modification Query for Process Definitions without Version Tag Contextual Process Data in Logging Improved Task Event Lifecycle Change the CSRF Prevention Cookie Name Support for WildFly 17 & 18 Discontinued Support for Legacy Environments 19 Bug Fixes You can Download Camunda for free (click on Preview Release) or Run it with Docker. If you are interested, you can see the complete release notes. If you want to dig in deeper, you can find the source code on GitHub.
Oct 31, 2019
Coming in Zeebe 0.22: Awaitable workflow outcomes
The upcoming 0.22 release of Zeebe includes a feature many users have been asking for: the ability to start a workflow and retrieve its outcome with a single command. The new gRPC command CreateWorkflowInstanceWithResult is available for testing in the current SNAPSHOT Docker image of Zeebe and the zeebe-node-next version of the Node.js client. This command starts a workflow instance and returns the outcome when the workflow completes. Use-cases A common scenario is to start a workflow in response to a REST request, and send back the outcome from the workflow in the REST response. Previous implementations of this relied on a polling worker to retrieve the outcome, and the use of subscriptions to correlate it with the REST request…
By Josh Wulf
Oct 29, 2019
Getting Started with Zeebe on Kubernetes with Spring Boot
In this tutorial you will learn how to get a simple process definition running into a Zeebe Cluster which runs inside Kubernetes. The tutorial covers: How to install Zeebe in your Kubernetes Cluster using the official Zeebe Helm Charts How to model a process definition with Zeebe Modeler How to interact with the Zeebe Cluster once it is running with zbctl (deploy and create new workflow instances) How to create Zeebe Workers with Spring Boot and How to monitor the process executions with Camunda Operate. Here are some useful links: Full Tutorial + Video Technical Steps and resources: (in GitHub Install Zeebe on Kubernetes Official Docs Zeebe Helm Charts: helm.zeebe.io End to end video, Running Zeebe on GKE Spring Boot…
Oct 28, 2019
How to (not) become a Digital Enterprise – Prioritizing Customer-Focused Innovation
This blog post is the second of a five-part series based on the keynote I presented at CamundaCon 2019 (You can find the recording on YouTube). You can read the first blog in this series here. In essence, I recommend: Prioritizing customer-focused innovation. Bringing technology to the heart of your company. Automating your business, one project at a time. Putting executives in charge who care about long-term success, their people and the world.
By Jakob Freund
Oct 21, 2019
How to (not) become a Digital Enterprise
This blog post is the first of a five-part series based on the keynote I presented at CamundaCon 2019 (You can find the recording on YouTube). The Quest for the Digital Enterprise A few weeks ago a Startup called Ethos raised $60M Venture Capital, bringing their external funding to more than $100M within 14 Months. Ethos want to make getting life insurance fast and easy by “turning a process that was once like going to the DMV to more like shopping online”.
By Jakob Freund
