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All Camunda blog posts tagged with Process Orchestration.
Nov 12, 2019
This blog post is the fourth of a five-part series based on the keynote I presented at CamundaCon 2019 (You can find the recording on YouTube). You can read the first blog in this series here.
By Jakob Freund
Nov 11, 2019
We’re excited to announce the release of Zeebe 0.22.0-alpha1 and Operate 1.2.0-alpha1. You can find information about how to get started with Zeebe and Operate in the docs. In the rest of this post, we’ll cover highlights from the releases along with other project updates.
Nov 9, 2019
The latest episode of the Camunda Nation podcast is now live, featuring Dan Shapir, CTO of Israeli/Australian fintech company Pay-K, and the author of the Zeebe NestJS integration, as our guest. We talk about Zeebe; NestJS; building reliable, refactorable applications at scale; and hiring developers in one of the most competitive markets in the world. Enjoy!
By Josh Wulf
Nov 4, 2019
This blog post is the third of a five-part series based on the keynote I presented at CamundaCon 2019 (You can find the recording on YouTube). You can read the first blog in this series here.
By Jakob Freund
Nov 3, 2019
Designing a resilient system means planning for, and alerting on various failure states. The Zeebe Cloud Canary npm package adds alerting to your Node.js Zeebe applications. There are a few things that can go wrong in a Zeebe system that you definitely want to surface operationally. Your client applications might exception and halt. The broker might fail – whether due to a hardware failure or some edge-case condition that puts it in an infinite restart loop while recovering (it could be memory constrained, for example, and rescheduled by K8s before it can recover its state on boot up). Both of these cases can be detected by probes. The broker has a readiness probe that can be monitored for this, and…
By Josh Wulf
Oct 31, 2019
The upcoming 0.22 release of Zeebe includes a feature many users have been asking for: the ability to start a workflow and retrieve its outcome with a single command. The new gRPC command CreateWorkflowInstanceWithResult is available for testing in the current SNAPSHOT Docker image of Zeebe and the zeebe-node-next version of the Node.js client. This command starts a workflow instance and returns the outcome when the workflow completes. Use-cases A common scenario is to start a workflow in response to a REST request, and send back the outcome from the workflow in the REST response. Previous implementations of this relied on a polling worker to retrieve the outcome, and the use of subscriptions to correlate it with the REST request…
By Josh Wulf
Oct 29, 2019
In this tutorial you will learn how to get a simple process definition running into a Zeebe Cluster which runs inside Kubernetes. The tutorial covers: How to install Zeebe in your Kubernetes Cluster using the official Zeebe Helm Charts How to model a process definition with Zeebe Modeler How to interact with the Zeebe Cluster once it is running with zbctl (deploy and create new workflow instances) How to create Zeebe Workers with Spring Boot and How to monitor the process executions with Camunda Operate. Here are some useful links: Full Tutorial + Video Technical Steps and resources: (in GitHub Install Zeebe on Kubernetes Official Docs Zeebe Helm Charts: helm.zeebe.io End to end video, Running Zeebe on GKE Spring Boot…
Oct 20, 2019
Jesse Van Muijden and his team, working in the Ministry of Social Welfare in the Netherlands, have developed a Zeebe-based system that brings transparency to government processes for citizens. In this interview, we talk about the tech stack: Node.js, Kafka.js, Java, Docker, and Zeebe, the innovative solution they’ve designed, and Jesse’s experience developing on Zeebe in a “beyond agile” project, even as Zeebe has been undergoing development.
By Josh Wulf
Oct 9, 2019
Today, we’re happy to announce the release of Zeebe 0.21 and Operate 1.1.0. Refer to the Zeebe docs for instructions to download a release. In this blog post we’ll highlight the changes since the 0.20 release. New and Changed in Zeebe 0.21 New and Changed in Zeebe Modeler 0.7.0 New and Changed in Operate 1.1.0 New and Changed in Zeebe 0.21 Java 11 TLS Support on Gateway and Clients OAuth Support in Clients Broker Backpressure Long-polling Workers New BPMN Symbol: Multi-instance subprocess Java 11 Prior to 0.21, Zeebe was built with Java 8. Zeebe is now built with Java 11 LTS. Please note that client applications that embed the Zeebe Java client library can still be written and compiled with…
By Josh Wulf
