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Niall Deehan

Feb 19, 2021

Community Questions: Camunda Web Apps

On the last Thursday of every month anyone from the Camunda community can get their burning questions answered live on the Camunda Question Corner, and myself and Nele will do our best to answer them. We tend to pick a special topic for each Question Corner and bring along a knowledgeable special guest so that folks have the opportunity to get their deep-dive questions answered by qualified experts. One of our more recent Question Corners took the special topic of the Camunda Web apps and we were joined by a developer who actually builds those web apps for Camunda — Martin Stamm. We got a lot of great questions, but having only 45 minutes to answer them meant that we…

By Niall Deehan

Community

Dec 30, 2020

Camunda Community Review 2020

Camunda, both as a company and a platform, is lucky to have strong involvement every step of the way from a thriving community. While a lot has happened this year, I felt it’s good to highlight what the community has achieved in three simple categories. Code, Community and Comrades. Code: lots of people write code that embedded and extended Camunda projects like the Engine and our Modeler. A special group of people then go the extra mile to make it available to the rest of the community and support it as it’s used. Community: There can be an innate feeling of community that can’t exist without individuals working to make an engaging, inclusive environment for its current and future members,…

By Niall Deehan

Community Product

Oct 15, 2020

Camunda BPM Telemetry: Community FAQ

Camunda BPM version 7.14 includes the option to turn on Telemetry as explained in this earlier blogpost. This anonymous data will be used to help us better understand what people are really doing with the engine and will make it easier for us to highlight the community influence on future roadmaps. When any of us stakeholders bring new potential features to the table for an upcoming release, our opinion on its own isn’t enough to shift the roadmap. Any good proposal needs to be data-driven. At the moment, a lot of the data I bring along with my proposals comes from forum posts, individual requests on JIRA, and one-on-one conversations with community members at user groups or other events. This…

By Niall Deehan

Community Featured

Sep 10, 2020

Highlights from the Summer Hackdays 2020

The Camunda hackdays are a wonderful time of year where the people in the company who like to code spend about three days working on their own fun passion projects, either in a team or by themselves. These projects have often become the catalyst for new features and community extensions. This year we had more people than ever joining for the hackdays and of course for the first time we did it fully remote! Supported by a lovely care package from the wonderful Camunda backoffice team. Hence all the lovely hats in the pictures below! More than 20 teams gathered together. At the end of the three days we got to watch each team present their project. The kinds of…

By Niall Deehan, Josh Wulf

Community Process Orchestration

Aug 20, 2020

How CMMN never lived up to its potential.

Even before the Object Management Group (OMG) had released the CMMN Specification in 2014, Camunda had already started building a CMMN engine. In the years that followed, we invested in symbol support, modeling capabilities, and admin tools. But after a couple of years, we decided that we would not be adding any more CMMN features to Camunda and that it will simply be maintained but not fully supported. This post is about the experience Camunda and its Community had with the CMMN standard and how this led to the choices we made to first embrace and then distance ourselves from CMMN. The Promise of CMMN Case Management Model and Notation (CMMN) was introduced as a direct result of the massive…

By Niall Deehan

Community Product

Aug 5, 2020

Camunda’s Evolution: An Open, Distributed Platform

We have recently released the first iteration of the OpenAPI documentation, which is a big step towards making Camunda a more technology independent platform. The journey up until now is very much worth discussing. Camunda started off as a lovely, lightweight java project, which was intended to be used by Java developers to embed in their projects so that they could orchestrate their processes. As far as this mission statement goes – it was, of course, a great success. The features we created focused on the Java ecosystems and the needs of Java developers, which is obvious considering that our community was almost exclusively made-up of Java folk. There came a time, one which I assume happens often for open…

By Niall Deehan

Community

Jul 2, 2020

The Collaborative Community of BPMN enthusiasts

This month 10 years ago, BPMN 2.0 was finalized and adopted as a standard, which in itself is something Camunda is happy to celebrate.But what has happened in the BPM space in the meantime is probably the most interesting thing about BPMN 2.0. A whole ecosystem and community has grown from the standard. While it originally came into existence to give the process building community a unified language, it sparked a lot of independent innovation. This was because turning a visual process language into an executable framework brought in a lot of new ways of thinking about processes, so modelers, engines and reporting tools began springing up – all around the same standard. So 10 years on we’ve arrived at…

By Niall Deehan

Community Product

Jun 11, 2020

Camunda Release Highlights

In the past few days, months of work by my fellow Camunda folk has resulted in a cavalcade of new releases – from big stuff like: Camunda BPM 7.13.0 Camunda Modeler 4.0.0 Camunda Optimize 3.1.0-alpha2 To smaller project releases External Task Client 2.0.0 for Node.js Assert 6.0.0 Spring Boot Starter 7.13.0 Because all of this fast-paced release of software can be slightly overwhelming, I wanted to spend some time focusing on a few specific parts that I’m quite excited about.

By Niall Deehan

Community

Apr 20, 2020

CamundaCon Live – Tips and Tricks to Make Most of Your Experience

We’re just days away from CamundaCon Live! Our very first live, virtual conference dedicated to process and workflow automation. If you’re joining us this April 23-24, we’ve written this handy guide to help you make the most of this online experience and make sure you can connect to the wider Camunda Community. Anything I need to do before joining CamundaCon Live? Join us today on our exclusive CamundaCon Live Slack channel – it is live right now. This is where you can talk to Camunda experts including Camunda engineers and consultants, who’ll be on hand to answer any questions you have during the event. Plus you’ll be able to interact with other attendees, including more than 4,300 software developers, architects…

By Mary Thengvall, Niall Deehan

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