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Camunda Optimize 2.6.0 Released

We are happy to announce the release of Camunda Optimize version 2.6.0. The release includes many exciting features including: New User Permissions Concept Outlier Analysis Enhanced Reporting Multi-Version Support for Process and Decision Reports Durations for Running Process Instances New User Task Assignee & Candidate Group Reports Improved Support for Undefined and Null Variable Values Supported Docker Image The complete release notes are available in Jira.

By Felix Mueller

Engineering

Transactional Email Microservice with Zeebe and NestJS

NestJS is a JavaScript Microservices framework for Node.js inspired by Angular. For some time now, front-end developers have been able to get the benefits of configuration by convention, dependency injection, and composition using decorators to build code bases whose structure can scale. Now it’s time for backend developers to get the same benefits. NestJS is a framework that clearly meets a need felt in the community – it was the fastest growing Node.js framework in 2018 (measured by GitHub stars). NestJS leverages TypeScript, decorators, and the MVC architecture to enable developers to build applications that communicate over REST, WebSockets, gRPC, and GraphQL. With a new library from Dan Shapir – nestjs-zeebe – you can now integrate Zeebe into a NestJS…

By Josh Wulf

Community

Zeebe and IoT: Node-RED

Patrick (Paddy) Dehn and Cornelius Suermann join me on the Camunda Nation podcast this week to talk about Zeebe, IoT, and workflow automation. Paddy is a developer working on Operate, the web-based UI for Zeebe workflow inspection and management, and Cornelius is the engineering director for Camunda Cloud. They are also both massive IoT nerds. Paddy is the author of the open-source Zeebe nodes for Node-RED. We talk about their personal home automation projects, the Zeebe nodes for Node-RED, and some of the possibilities for massively scaled workflow automation in the cloud with Camunda Cloud, Zeebe, and IoT. Check them out on GitHub: Cornelius on GitHub Paddy on GitHub

By Josh Wulf

Engineering

Camunda BPM 7.12.0-alpha4 Released

Camunda BPM 7.12.0-alpha4 is here and the highlights are: Handling Bpmn Error and Escalation in User Tasks Cascading Changes to Due Dates of Recurring Timers Add Time Triggered Task Listeners in User Tasks Java 13 Support 7 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.

By Camunda Platform Team

Community

Zeebe and Kubernetes: Introducing Mauricio Salatino

Mauricio Salatino has joined the Zeebe team as a Developer Advocate. He was previously a developer at Red Hat on jBPM, and then at Alfresco on Activiti. He’s also written courses on using Kubernetes. He’s based in London, and is happy to meet people from the Zeebe community at meetups and for coffee. In September, Mauricio sat down to talk with the Camunda Nation Podcast about Zeebe and Kubernetes. You can reach Mauricio in the Zeebe Slack and the Forum, follow him on Twitter @salaboy, and check him out on GitHub. You can subscribe to the Zeebe Nation podcast on iTunes, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, or old-school RSS.

By Josh Wulf

Community

CamundaCon 2019 – Agility, Innovation and BPMN

There’s a perception that business process management (BPM) platforms are one of those staid categories of software where the pace of innovation is glacial. However, at CamundaCon 2019 last week, it quickly became apparent that modern BPM software is quickly emerging as one of the pillars of digital business innovation.

By Michael Vizard

Community

Camunda Chief Technologist Advises Developers to Become Choreographers

Building microservices is relatively easy. The hard part is teaching them to dance. That’s the challenge software development teams now find themselves wrestling with as the number of microservices in an IT environment that need to be managed starts to exponentially increase, says Bernd Rücker, co-founder, chief technologist and developer advocate.

By Michael Vizard

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