Mar 12, 2019
‘How Does Zeebe Compare to X?’: An Evaluation Framework
We often get questions about how Zeebe is the same as or different from other tools and frameworks that can be used to orchestrate workflows. These “other tools” include:
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Process Orchestration
All Camunda blog posts tagged with Process Orchestration.
Feb 12, 2019
Announcing the Zeebe 0.15 Release: Start Events, Boundary Events, and More
The Zeebe team is happy to announce the 0.15 release. You can download Zeebe 0.15 from the release page on GitHub. In this post, we’ll discuss some of the highlights from the release and share other project updates. Questions? Feedback? The Community page on our website lists a number of ways that you can get in touch with us. We monitor and respond to messages on the Slack group and user forum on an ongoing basis, and we’d love to hear from you. Zeebe 0.15 Release Highlights Zeebe 0.15 includes more progress with BPMN symbols, adding support for the Message Start Event and Timer Start Event as well as Non-Interrupting Boundary Events. The Message Start Event makes it possible to…
Dec 18, 2018
Zeebe in 2018: The Year In Review
As the year comes to a close, we’ll take a moment to review what was accomplished in Zeebe in 2018 and discuss what’s next to come. 2018 was an exciting year with many new features and significant conceptual updates that changed the scope of Zeebe. We’ll cover both in this post, and we’ll also talk about our efforts to spread the word about Zeebe around the globe.
Dec 13, 2018
Writing an Apache Kafka Connector for Zeebe (And A Working Prototype)
Bernd Rücker is a co-founder and developer advocate at Camunda. With Zeebe.io we provide a horizontally scalable workflow engine completely open source. We face a lot of customer scenarios where Zeebe needs to be connected to Apache Kafka (or the Confluent Platform).
Dec 12, 2018
The Microservices Workflow Automation Cheat Sheet
Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared on Bernd Rücker’s blog and was cross-posted here with Bernd’s permission. Thanks Bernd! Your company might want to go for a microservice architecture and apply workflow automation (I do not go into the motivation why in this blog post, but you might want to read about 5 Workflow Automation Use Cases You Might Not Have Considered or BizDevOps — the true value proposition of workflow engines.) This sets you in company with a lot of our customers. Typically, you will have questions around: Scope and boundaries (“what workflow do you want to automate and how is this mapped to multiple microservices or bounded contexts in your landscape”). To limit the scope of this post I spare…
Dec 6, 2018
Announcing the Zeebe 0.14 Release and a Year-End Zeebe Webinar
The Zeebe team is excited to announce the 0.14 release. You can download 0.14 from the release page on GitHub. In this post, we’ll discuss some of the highlights from the release and other project updates. We’d also like to let you know that next Thursday, December 13, we’ll be hosting a Zeebe webinar where we discuss recent Zeebe features and what’s coming next. You can register for the webinar here. We’ve provided more detail about the agenda below. Questions? Feedback? The Community page on our website lists a number of ways that you can get in touch with us. We monitor and respond to messages on the Slack group and support forum on an ongoing basis, and it would…
Nov 30, 2018
Generating a Zeebe-Python Client Stub in Less Than An Hour: A gRPC + Zeebe Tutorial
Please note that this blog post has not been updated since its original publication to reflect changes to Zeebe’s gateway.proto file. The general approach for creating a stub that we show here still applies to newer versions of Zeebe, but you may need to make a few modifications depending on which Zeebe version you’re using. The high points: Starting in Zeebe 0.12, Zeebe clients communicate with brokers via a stateless gRPC gateway, with Protocol Buffers used as the interface design language and message interchange format. gRPC makes it easy to generate a “client stub” in any of ten supported programming languages; this means it’s possible to use Zeebe in applications written in not only Java and Go–the languages with officially-supported…
Nov 12, 2018
Announcing the Zeebe 0.13 Release (Plus Other Project Updates)
The Zeebe team is excited to announce the 0.13 release. You can download 0.13 from the release page on GitHub. In this post, we’ll discuss some of the highlights from the release and other general project updates. Questions? Feedback? The Community page on our website lists a number of ways that you can get in touch with us. We monitor and respond to messages on the Slack group and support forum on an regular basis, and we’d love to hear from you. Zeebe 0.13 Release Highlights BPMN Support: Timer Intermediate Catch Event As described in the documentation, the timer intermediate catch event is a BPMN element that behaves like a stopwatch. When a workflow instance token arrives at a timer…
Nov 9, 2018
Event-Driven Orchestration: Message Events and Message Correlation in Zeebe
Zeebe 0.12 supports message events, making it easy to use Zeebe as part of an event-driven architecture; workflow instances can to respond to events published by external systems. And Zeebe handles all of the heavy lifting related to correlating a message to a workflow instance: buffering incoming messages, opening a subscription to receive messages that match with active workflow instances, and correlating a message (when one exists) to a workflow instance that has arrived at a message event. Last month’s Zeebe 0.12 release introduced support for two BPMN elements that are core to Zeebe’s ability to operate in an event-driven architecture: the intermediate message catch event and the receive task. These elements make it possible for workflow instances to react…
