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: Part 1: Connecting Camunda Cloud With Your World (this post) Part 2: Service Interaction Patterns with BPMN and Camunda Cloud (coming soon) Part 3: Writing Good Job Worker Code For Camunda Cloud (coming soon) Connecting...

When working with multiple projects and multiple Cloud Services automation becomes a must. Camunda Cloud resources such as Zeebe Clusters and Camunda Operate are no different from other components such as Databases, or Message brokers, these need to be provisioned for your applications to connect with. This project allows you to connect to the Camunda Cloud Console using the Go language or a command-line tool, allowing you to create automation around when remote environments are created and destroyed. You can connect to these APIs using any language as these APIs are just REST endpoints, but if you have automated pipelines using a command-line tool might be the best fit for you.  This project provides a binary that you can download...

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: Synchronous blocking: A call uses a synchronous protocol, like HTTP, and blocks for the result. This is you, calling a pizza...

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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...

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...

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: Is there an alternative to Spaghetti? How can you Teach a Workflow to Execute a specific task? Automate manual tasks with Camunda and Trello 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...

Setting up your Telegram channel with Camunda Cloud  If you’re a runner, then you know it’s important to change your running shoes from time to time. I’ve run many miles with the Camunda Platform. I’ve used it for my own projects, for tutorials, and taught people how to use it in workshops. Now, it’s time to put on some new shoes: it’s time to automate a process with Camunda Cloud. If you’ve also been using Camunda Platform and are interested in what it looks like to move to Camunda Cloud, come for a run with me. In the continuing pandemic situation, I need to stay informed, and know as soon as the situation relaxes. I find myself checking the Corona...