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Bernd Ruecker

Engineering ExcellenceProcess Orchestration

May 21, 2021

Drafting Your Camunda Cloud Architecture – Part 2: Service Integration Patterns With BPMN And Camunda Cloud

When automating processes you typically integrate systems and services, or in other words you orchestrate various APIs. In order to achieve this you not only have different technical possibilities, but also can choose between various modeling possibilities in BPMN. This post will give you an overview and advice on how to decide between alternatives.

By Bernd Ruecker

Engineering ExcellenceProduct

Apr 20, 2021

Drafting Your Camunda Cloud Architecture – Part 1: Connecting the Workflow Engine with Your World

Have you started your first project using process automation as a service with Camunda Cloud? One of your first tasks would be to sketch the basic architecture of your solution, and this blog post will guide you through some important early questions such as how to connect the workflow engine with your application or with remote systems? Or what’s a job worker, what should it do, and how many do you need? This post is the first piece of a series of upcoming blog posts: Connecting the Workflow Engine with Your Application The workflow engine Zeebe is a remote system for your applications, just like a database. Your application connects with Zeebe via remote protocols, gRPC to be precise, which…

By Bernd Ruecker

AnnouncementsProcess Orchestration

Mar 25, 2021

Publishing “Practical Process Automation”

A Book about Orchestration and Integration in Microservices and Cloud-Native Architectures I am happy to share that my new book called “Practical Process Automation” is officially published by O’Reilly today. In this book, I distilled my practical experience implementing process automation solutions from the last two decades. What You Will Find In The Book A general introduction to process automation and the different forms of automation An explanation of how developer-friendly process automation can be applied in modern system architectures and software development practices A hands-on guide to lightweight workflow engines and BPMN as the core elements to make this happen Architecture guidelines and best practices to implement your own process solutions A discussion of typical misconceptions around process automation…

By Bernd Ruecker

AnnouncementsFeatured

Mar 22, 2021

Camunda Closes $100 Million Series B Funding Round to Automate Any Process, Anywhere

I am excited to share that we just completed a €82 million (approximately $100 million) funding round led by Insight Partners. The round also included our existing investor Highland Europe from the Series A. You can find the official press release here. In this blog post I want to comment on this funding round in my own words and briefly walk you through the story of Camunda. But first things first: Who is Camunda and what do we do? Who is Camunda and what do we do? Camunda provides process automation software that is used by our customers, such as Allianz, ING, Vodafone, or Atlassian, to automate processes they need tailor-made for their business. In essence, Camunda provides software to build software. For example…

By Bernd Ruecker

Engineering ExcellenceProcess Orchestration

Mar 18, 2021

Communication Between Loosely Coupled Microservices

In our recent webinar titled “Communication Between Loosely Coupled Microservices” we got a lot of great questions and because of the limited time some were left unanswered. As community questions are really important to me I want to follow my tradition to answer remaining questions in a blog post (as I have for example also done roughly a year ago in “Webinar FAQ for Monitoring & Orchestrating Your Microservices Landscape using Workflow Automation”). What Was The Webinar About? You can find the slides (here) and recording (here) online. The webinar covered different styles of communication. This was explained by looking at how ordering food works: The communication style is very different from styles of collaboration of services, which was also discussed: The following table gives an…

By Bernd Ruecker

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