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Engineering Excellence Process Orchestration

May 11, 2020

Camunda Optimize-specific Questions: Monitoring & Orchestrating Your Microservices Landscape using Workflow Automation

Back in March, I conducted the webinar: “Monitoring & Orchestrating Your Microservices Landscape using Workflow Automation”. Not only was I overwhelmed by the number of attendees, but we also got a huge list of interesting questions before and, especially, during the webinar. I was able to answer some of these, but ran out of time to answer them all. So I want to answer all open questions in this series of seven blog posts – you can click on the hyperlinks below to navigate to the other entries. In this blog, we’ll be exploring Camunda Optimize-specific questions BPMN & modeling-related questions (6 answers) Architecture related questions (12) Stack & technology questions (6) Camunda product-related questions (5) Camunda Optimize-specific questions (3)…

By Bernd Ruecker

Engineering Excellence Process Orchestration

May 4, 2020

Camunda product-related Questions: Monitoring & Orchestrating Your Microservices Landscape using Workflow Automation

Back in March, I conducted the webinar: “Monitoring & Orchestrating Your Microservices Landscape using Workflow Automation”. Not only was I overwhelmed by the number of attendees, but we also got a huge list of interesting questions before and, especially, during the webinar. I was able to answer some of these, but ran out of time to answer them all. So I want to answer all open questions in this series of seven blog posts – you can click on the hyperlinks below to navigate to the other entries. In this blog, we’ll be exploring Camunda product-related questions BPMN & modeling-related questions (6 answers) Architecture related questions (12) Stack & technology questions (6) Camunda product-related questions (5) Camunda Optimize specific questions…

By Bernd Ruecker

Engineering Excellence Process Orchestration

Apr 27, 2020

Stack and Technology Questions: Monitoring & Orchestrating Your Microservices Landscape using Workflow Automation

Back in March, I conducted the webinar: “Monitoring & Orchestrating Your Microservices Landscape using Workflow Automation”. Not only was I overwhelmed by the number of attendees, but we also got a huge list of interesting questions before and, especially, during the webinar. I was able to answer some of these, but ran out of time to answer them all. So I want to answer all open questions in this series of seven blog posts – you can click on the hyperlinks below to navigate to the other entries.

By Bernd Ruecker

Community Engineering Excellence

Apr 20, 2020

Architecture Questions: Monitoring & Orchestrating Your Microservices Landscape using Workflow Automation

Back in March, I conducted the webinar: “Monitoring & Orchestrating Your Microservices Landscape using Workflow Automation”. You can find the recording of the webinar online, as well as the slides. Not only was I overwhelmed by the number of attendees, but we also got a huge list of interesting questions before and, especially, during the webinar. I was able to answer some of these, but ran out of time to answer them all.

By Bernd Ruecker

Engineering Excellence Process Orchestration

Apr 13, 2020

Webinar FAQ Part 1: Monitoring & Orchestrating Your Microservices Landscape using Workflow Automation

Back in March, I conducted the webinar: “Monitoring & Orchestrating Your Microservices Landscape using Workflow Automation”. You can find the recording of the webinar online, as well as the slides. Not only was I overwhelmed by the number of attendees, but we also got a huge list of interesting questions before and, especially, during the webinar. I was able to answer some of these, but ran out of time to answer them all.

By Bernd Ruecker

Community Engineering Excellence

Mar 12, 2020

The Microservices Workflow Automation Cheat Sheet – Who owns your process model?

We recently shared 3 Common Pitfalls in Microservice Integration – and how to avoid them and lots of you wanted more. So this four-part blog series takes us one step back to the things you’ll be considering before migrating to a microservices architecture and applying workflow automation. In this fourth and final post in the series, we’ll discuss why the physical ownership of process models is so important to ongoing success.

By Bernd Ruecker

Engineering Excellence Product

Mar 6, 2020

Introducing Camunda BPM Run

We are proud to announce Camunda BPM Run, a new distribution of Camunda BPM that provides the Camunda web applications (Cockpit, Tasklist, Admin) and the REST API. Camunda BPM Run is highly configurable and can be operated without any Java knowledge.

By Miklas Boskamp, Thorben Lindhauer

Community Engineering Excellence

Mar 5, 2020

The Microservices Workflow Automation Cheat Sheet – to Centralize or Decentralize?

We recently shared 3 Common Pitfalls in Microservice Integration – and how to avoid them and lots of you wanted more. So this four-part blog series takes us one step back to the things you’ll be considering before migrating to a microservices architecture and applying workflow automation. In this third post in the series, we’ll dive deeper into architecture and discuss whether it’s better to run a workflow engine centralized or decentralized.

By Bernd Ruecker

Community Engineering Excellence

Mar 2, 2020

Orchestrating Lambdas using Camunda Cloud

At MINEKO we automate the process for reviewing and validating private and commercial utility bills for tenants. We found that 81% of all utility bills issued in Germany are flawed. So we built a team of legal and automation experts to provide our customers with high quality legal checks on utility bills at a fraction of the costs of a lawyer. We recently started using Camunda Cloud as part of Camunda’s private beta program. Our intention was to evaluate it for the traditional use case of running business processes, not knowing that it would completely change our thinking of design patterns regarding orchestration of microservices. This post describes our technical architecture in more depth, alongside the reasons we built it…

By Felix Jordan

Engineering Excellence

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