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All Camunda blog posts tagged with Engineering Excellence.
Oct 20, 2017
The External tasks concept was introduced in v. 7.4. So far, only two operations existed to deal with external tasks: Fetch & Lock and Complete (read more in our docs). These operations may be enough in most of the use cases, but can also cause a lot of inconveniences:
Oct 6, 2017
We are excited to announce the release of a new Alpha version of the Camunda Spring Boot Starter. As announced at the Community Day in September, the Spring boot starter is now an official part of Camunda BPM. This includes support for our enterprise customers.
Sep 29, 2017
How about a new release of Camunda BPM 7.8 to spice things up? Among the long list of new features in Camunda BPM 7.8-alpha4, the highlights are: Deletion of Process Definitions in Cockpit (EE) History Cleanup in Cockpit (EE) Batch Process Instance Restart (EE) Interval Configuration for Failed Jobs 11 Bug Fixes You can Download Camunda BPM 7.8 or Run it with Docker. To see a full list of the changes, please check out our Release Notes and the list of Known Issues. If you want to dig in deeper, you can find the source code on GitHub.
Sep 29, 2017
Camunda Optimize 1.4.0 is here and this time we focused on making it more stable and improving the user experience. Also have a look at our new date picker, that makes it even more fun to choose a start date filter: How to get it In contrast to the core engine, Camunda Optimize is not open source, so please get in touch with us to find out on how you can use Camunda Optimize to improve your processes.
Sep 1, 2017
Camunda Optimize 1.3.0 is here and it is packed with new features. The highlights are: Multiple Engine Support Executed Flow Node Filter How to get it In contrast to the core engine, Camunda Optimize is not open source, so please get in touch with us to find out on how you can use Camunda Optimize for your processes.
Aug 31, 2017
We are delighted to share the third alpha release of Camunda BPM 7.8 with you! This release features the following improvements: Batch process instance modification in Cockpit (EE) Faster rendering of BPMN diagrams in Cockpit Support for JSON and XML variable types in Cockpit History time to live for batch operations Global configuration for the failed job retry time cycle 20 Bug Fixes To try out Camunda BPM 7.8 you can download one of the distributions or pull and run the docker image. If you want to take a deeper dive, you can find the source code on GitHub. For a complete list of all improvements take a look at the release notes. Please also see the list of known…
Aug 4, 2017
In Camunda there is a concept called External Tasks. See External Tasks allows new Use Cases with Camunda BPM or External Tasks in the docs. The basic idea is simple: Camunda does not actively call a service (which would be PUSH), but worker fetch work items queued for them (PULL). Whenever a worker finishes his work item, he reports completion back to Camunda. Workers can use the Java API, but most often leverage the REST API, as this allows to run workers as own process. This again allows to scale the workers independently and use whatever language you like to implement them. Also it allows on-premise workers in your private network access a cloud hosted engine.Whenever you are talking REST…
Aug 1, 2017
Camunda Optimize 1.2.0 is here and it is packed with new features. The highlights are: Import Based on Process Definitions Adaptive page sizes Import most recent data first Documentation How to get it In contrast to the core engine, Camunda Optimize is not open source, so please get in touch with us to find out how you can use Camunda Optimize for your processes.
Jul 28, 2017
Camunda BPM platform 7.8.0-alpha2 is here and it is packed with new features. The highlights are: OR in task queries Sorting and filtering in Admin Extending of locks on external tasks More batch operations in Cockpit: suspend/restart process instance and set retries on external tasks (EE) 18 Bug Fixes Also see the complete list of release notes and the list of known issues. You can download it or run it with docker. If you want to dig in deeper, you can find the source code on GitHub.
