Camunda Blog
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.
Nov 29, 2019
Camunda BPM 7.12.0 Released
We are excited to announce that Camunda BPM Platform 7.12.0 is now available. The release includes many new capabilities. Here are some of the highlights: Enhanced BPMN Execution Trigger BPMN Errors and Escalations from User Tasks Time-triggered Listeners for User Tasks Update Listeners for User Tasks Improved Operations Annotate Operation Logs with Comments Contextual Logging for Processes Stronger Security Protection Against Malicious Variable Values Additional Supported Environments You can download Camunda 7.12.0 for free or run it with Docker. Also included in the release: Spring Boot Starter 3.4.0, which relies on Spring Boot 2.2.1 by default Assert 5.0.0 for convenient testing of processes in Java Node.js External Task Client 1.3.0 for JavaScript developers Java External Task Client 1.3.0, which can…
Nov 29, 2019
Camunda Optimize 2.7.0-alpha2 Released
We are happy to announce the release of Camunda Optimize version 2.7.0-alpha2. In this second alpha release, you can get an early look at many improvements and features in advance of the stable Optimize version 2.7.0, including: Data Sources for Collections “What’s New” Message The complete release notes are available in Jira.
