David Simmons

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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...

It’s that time of year again. The time when the world’s largest order fulfillment operation experiences its heaviest load. No, not Amazon – we’re talking about Santa Claus, Inc. – the largest logistics company in the world, with a 24-hour global delivery window at peak load. This year is different, however. Earlier this year, Saint Nick clicked on an ad on his Facebook feed, one promising a digital nomad lifestyle through automating his business. Sick of the Arctic weather and the stress of traveling, the thought of sitting on a beach in Thailand – while still bringing joy to children around the world – was enticing. Santa paid for the course and applied the principles of process automation, task decomposition...

It’s a very Camunda Halloween, and this project should keep you safe from the Trick-or-Treaters! It’s more than just a BPM process, of course. It’s an IoT project that uses Camunda BPM to deliver the goods. I’ll break this post up into several sections, but you will need (or at least need access to) a 3-D printer to fully realize the awesomness here. It uses a modified Dog Treat Dispenser because I didn’t have the time (or the skills) to design a whole new Candy Dispenser from scratch. Overview This is both a hardware and a software, as well as a BPMN, project, so there are a lot of moving parts — literally and figuratively. The first thing I had...