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All Camunda blog posts tagged with Process Orchestration.
Sep 12, 2019
Today at CamundaCon, our CTO Daniel Meyer (who also happens to have written more than 100,000 lines of Zeebe code) unveiled Camunda Cloud. This is a big step for Camunda. It’s the first time in the company’s history that we’re offering a workflow service in the cloud, and we’re super excited to be starting down this path. And we’re sharing the news here on the Zeebe blog because Zeebe is the workflow engine that sits at the heart of Camunda Cloud.
Sep 11, 2019
Zeebe is now available as a managed service in the Camunda Cloud. This means that you can experiment with Zeebe without having to set up and manage the broker. Currently it is in beta, and you can apply here to get an account. You will be able do both development and go to production without having to concern yourself with deploying and managing the Zeebe broker on Kubernetes – you can leverage the expertise of the Camunda Cloud Engineering team, who do that full-time. You can still run Zeebe locally or deploy it to the cloud yourself, so this is an additional option rather than a change to anything. This post is a guide to getting started with the Zeebe…
By Josh Wulf
Aug 27, 2019
The Zeebe team just implemented a Kafka Connect Zeebe connector. This is a feature users have been asking for since the start of the project, so let’s give it a closer look. What is Kafka Connect? Kafka Connect is the ecosystem of connectors into or out of Kafka. There are lots of existing connectors, e.g. for databases, key-value stores or file systems. So for example you can read data from a RDMS and push it to Elasticsearch or flat files.
Aug 23, 2019
The upcoming 0.21 release of Zeebe includes a feature many users have been asking for: long-polling for workers. And make sure you stay tuned to the end to find out what a massive deal it is. Zeebe is a radical re-imagining of the workflow engine for the modern world: it uses event sourcing to interpret workflows over immutable streams. In the Zeebe model, workers are de-coupled from the broker. Conceptually, workers “subscribe” to task types on the broker to service. In terms of actual implementation, workers poll the broker for the task type they service. This allows the broker to have no stateful knowledge about workers. The Problem With Polling Every request to the broker for work from a worker…
By Josh Wulf
Aug 15, 2019
Note: The specific performance metrics in this blog post are from an earlier release of Zeebe. Since this post was published, work has been done to stabilise Zeebe clusters, and this has changed the performance envelope. You can follow the steps in this blog post to test the current release of Zeebe yourself, and derive the current performance envelope. Zeebe advertises itself as being a “horizontally-scalable workflow engine”. In this post, we cover what that means and how to measure it.
By Daniel Meyer
Aug 14, 2019
Message correlation is a powerful feature in Zeebe. It allows you to target a running workflow with a state update from an external system, asynchronously. You can use it to do things like: Update a workflow instance when an item ships from a warehouse, or a customer payment is processed. Cancel a running workflow when a user quits from a game server. Any event in the external world that influences your workflow state. This tutorial uses the JavaScript client, but it serves to illustrate message correlation concepts that are applicable to all language clients. We will use Simple Monitor to inspect the running workflow state. Simple Monitor is a community-supported tool, and is not designed to be used in production…
By Josh Wulf
Aug 12, 2019
Today, we’re happy to announce the release of Zeebe 0.21.0-alpha1 and Operate 1.1.0-alpha1. This is the first release for both products since our production readiness announcement in mid-July 2019, and we’re excited to show you what we’ve been up to.
Aug 7, 2019
The latest episode of the Camunda Nation podcast is live, and it features an interview with Mackenzie Clark, the maintainer of the open source Rust client library for Zeebe – Zeebest. Extract from 00:17:18: Mackenzie: Another reason I liked Zeebe a lot is they were using BPMN – which was (an) ISO standard format – for describing workflows, and I think Conductor was not using BPMN – or they had to have some kind of adapter. And so that was another bonus, is it had that legitimacy of ISO. Josh: Yeah, I think Conductor uses its own YAML format, and then from the YAML it generates a diagram, whereas with Zeebe you can go GUI-first and it generates XML in…
By Josh Wulf
Aug 1, 2019
In the Zeebe Slack and the Forum, a number of users have been inquiring about initiating a Zeebe workflow via a REST request, and returning the outcome of the workflow in the REST response. Zeebe workflows are fully decoupled, asynchronous, and have no awaitable outcome. This means there is nothing out-of-the-box right now to do this. We are evaluating demand for this feature in GitHub, both in terms of its eventual shape and its priority. Let’s look at the problem in more detail, how we can match it with Zeebe’s model, and a few different solutions that you can implement now. I’m going to be using the TypeScript Zeebe client for code examples in this article, but the concepts are…
By Josh Wulf
