Mar 16, 2021
Automate Screenshots with Camunda Cloud
Do you have to create or update screenshots of web products all the time? Do you find yourself thinking, “really, this again?”
By Adam Urban
Mar 12, 2021
How Zalando serves more than 16 million customers with BPMN
Zalando has used Camunda Platform to execute its customer orders since 2014
By Charley Mann
Mar 10, 2021
Swagger API access with Camunda Platform
Have you ever fired up the Camunda Platform Docker instance and wished you could do live-calls to the API via a swagger server? We have! And like most things we wish we could do, we go out and make it happen. Coming soon To be clear, this integration is coming to the official Camunda Platform Docker container with release 7.15. It’s just not ready yet. So this is really more of an interim solution rather than the be-all and end-all solution, but it works, and it makes sending API calls to a live instance of Camunda Platform a lot easier. So follow along and we’ll show you how to run it yourself. CORS is your friend, and not your friend In general, and…
The Zeebe Community Welcomes Camunda Cloud!
The Rise of Camunda Cloud Whether you’re a current Camunda Platform user, interested in our open source software, or simply poking around our blog as a result of a tweet you saw from someone in our community, you may have noticed an increase in the number of times you’re seeing words like Camunda Cloud, SaaS, or Zeebe pop up over the past few months. As you may know, we first released Zeebe, the source-available, community-supported workflow engine, in 2017 (read the history of Zeebe in our CEO’s words). Since then, in addition to creating an amazing enterprise product with Camunda Platform, we’ve been listening to your feedback on Zeebe as well as Camunda Cloud, working hard to build a SaaS…
Mar 9, 2021
Camunda Cloud 1.0.0-alpha2 Released
We’re excited to announce the release of Camunda Cloud 1.0.0-alpha2, which includes Zeebe 1.0.0-alpha2 Operate 1.0.0-alpha2 Tasklist 1.0.0-alpha2 Updates in Cloud Console How to get it In this post, we’ll highlight some of the new capabilities introduced in these alpha releases. Zeebe 1.0.0-alpha2 The Zeebe team continued its work on getting ready for the 1.0 release and improving many internal components of the workflow engine and its underlying infrastructure. Nevertheless, the alpha2 release already provides an improvement for users of the Java client. The Java job worker implementation now offers a back-off mechanism if the Zeebe service is not available. Before the job worker continues to poll the unavailable service continuously, the job worker will apply an exponential back-off strategy…
Mar 9, 2021
Camunda Platform Runtime 7.15.0-alpha4 Released
We are happy to announce the next alpha release of Camunda Platform Runtime 7.15. This release features the following improvements: You can Download Camunda for free or Run it with Docker. For a complete list of all improvements, take a look at the release notes. Please also see the list of known issues. If you want to dig in deeper, you can find the source code on GitHub. Incident Annotations in Cockpit When working on incidents, adding notes to inform a coworker about insights, decisions, or solution ideas can be a valuable asset for increasing productivity and transparency. We’ve added this capability to incidents with this release. Head over to Cockpit to give them a try. New Plugin System for…
Camunda Optimize 3.4.0-alpha2 Released
We’re excited to announce the release of Camunda Optimize 3.4.0-alpha2. Camunda 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 get started with Optimize 3.4.0-alpha2 right away, you can download the release here with your Camunda Enterprise Platform customer credentials. And if you’re not yet a Camunda customer, you can sign up here for a free 30-day trial of the Camunda Enterprise Platform, which includes Camunda Optimize. In the rest of this post, we’ll highlight some of the new capabilities introduced in Optimize 3.4.0-alpha2. Event Based Processes – Groups…
Mar 4, 2021
Introducing the Camunda Community Hub
Here at Camunda, we are consistently in awe of our open source community and the amazing things you create using Camunda. During Hacktoberfest last year, we were blown away by the enthusiasm and expertise that the community brought to Camunda projects and community extensions. Based on that experience, to further strengthen and support our community, we’re launching the Camunda Community Hub, a platform for community extensions that we hope will both inspire our current open source community extension Maintainers and encourage new contributors to get started. The Camunda Community Hub is a GitHub Organization that serves as a single place to find Camunda open source community-contributed extensions. For maintainers, it’s a community of maintainers and Camunda employees that provides peer…
By Rin Oliver
Mar 2, 2021
Send Slack Messages direct from Camunda Cloud
This article is the fourth in a series exploring fun, straightforward ways you can control workflows using Camunda Cloud — have a read of the others for some background if you’d like to see Camunda Cloud in action with Restzeebe, without a line of code: Do you use Slack? How about adding a level of automation to this widely used collaboration tool, that is making email obsolete in many organizations? Let’s say you already widely use Slack in your company and want to receive an active notification when a new user has registered to your service? You can create a new channel just for that purpose and all Slack users who are interested can join the channel. If you already have an onboarding…
By Adam Urban
