Process Orchestration
In the past few weeks, we’ve mentioned Zeebe’s performance in horizontal scalability benchmarks that we run internally, but we haven’t yet explained how exactly we run these benchmarks. We decided we should take it one step further and open up the benchmark to anyone who wants to try it.
Engineering
WildFly Swarm is a way to build your Java EE application with just enough of the application server, packaged in one uber-jar. This is usually the way to go, when building microservices architecture, when each service is such kind of Jar, containing the server runtime inside it. For those who want to try it out, the community extension is now available to easily include Camunda Engine and/or Web applications into WildFly Swarm projects.
Process Orchestration
Update: On Monday, June 11, the Zeebe team released version 0.10.1 (download and changelog available here), a patch that fixes an issue with stream processing, and also released a 0.10.1 update for zbctl, the Zeebe command line interface. The Zeebe team is pleased to announce the Zeebe 0.10.0 release, which includes:
Engineering
In a recent blog post, I described a use case based on facial image recognition to perform an authentication task. In an ideal process, the recognition system either passes or fails the recognition task and the process proceeds via straight through processing to completion. In practice there is a fuzzy boundary between these two outcomes where human judgment via a human task is injected into the process. Now consider the case where say an image of a driver license is used as a reference image. This image contains particularly sensitive information. Hence if a user is required to access this image, have we taken all reasonable steps to protect this information and provide access on a need to know basis?…
Product
We are happy to announce the release of Camunda Optimize version 2.1.0-alpha2. This release marks the second alpha release of Camunda Optimize 2.1.0. It is also the last alpha release of Optimize 2.1.0 before we release the final version of 2.1.0 next month. The current alpha version handles authorization for users and process definitions so that only users who are authorized to access Optimize can use it and can only see the Process Definitions they are allowed to see. In addition, we added the possibility to add external reports to dashboards and added a new Progress Bar Visualization for single number reports.
By Johannes Heinemann, Sebastian Stamm
Engineering
Camunda BPM platform 7.9.0 is now available, and the highlights are: Clients for External Tasks History Cleanup Performance Improvements Transient Variables New Features in Camunda Cockpit 119 Bug Fixes
By Svetlana Dorokhova, Nikola Koevski, Roman Smirnov
Product
We are happy to announce the latest release of our Camunda Modeler, version 1.15.0. The release ships with numerous small usability improvements. With a new version of our BPMN toolkit under the hood it brings the long-awaited ability to model data stores between participants/pools, too.
Engineering
I often describe process based applications as a lot like Lego ®. Functions and services are like the different types and styles of bricks, BPMN process models are the instructions to assemble those bricks into desired models or outcomes. Hence much like the Lego analogy, from a few re-usable services, I can use BPMN processes to assemble a multitude of useful outcomes. With the trend towards public API’s and the ease of access to cloud based services, my Lego kit just got a whole lot larger! Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently released additional Artificial Intelligence (AI) services into their Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering. One in particular called Rekognition caught my attention. Rekognition includes a set of image processing…
Product
There’s no shortage of hype around RPA (Robotic Process Automation), and you don’t have to take our word for it: in a July 2017 report, Gartner declared RPA to be at the peak of the so-called Hype Cycle. RPA’s underlying value proposition is indeed compelling. The automation of tedious, manual tasks trapped inside legacy software systems with no API provides enterprises with measurable benefits. Employees can spend less time and energy on low-value work and focus on strategic projects instead. At Camunda, our area of expertise is workflow automation. Camunda BPM, our business process management platform, powers critical workflows for more than 200 enterprise customers, and the open-source edition of the platform is downloaded thousands of times each month. Many…
By Mike Winters
