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29 août 2018
Stateful Orchestration (or, Why Your Microservices Application Needs a Brain)
When checking in for a flight online, normal people hope that everything works the way it’s supposed to. That usually means no error messages, and at the end of the process, getting a boarding pass in your selected format. We at Camunda, however, are not “normal people”. A problem during check-in is a bit of a thrill for us because it gives us a peek into how a company handles software failures in a high-traffic application. We never know exactly what’s happening under the hood, of course, but we like to speculate.
14 août 2018
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Camunda BPM: A demo on using UiPath robots within a BPMN workflow
Having read Mike’s post on why it makes sense to combine RPA products with Camunda BPM, I got curious about prototyping an example with a specific RPA tool. I decided to work with UiPath since it’s been getting a lot of attention from the community. In this post, I want to share what I learned and what I built during my one-week journey into the world of RPA. Scenario The example can be applied to any scenario where you need to replace manual work (the User Task in BPMN) with an automated task and where an external system — often a legacy graphical user interface — does not provide an API that can be called directly from Camunda. So instead…
9 août 2018
BPMN and Microservices Orchestration, Part 2 of 2: Graphical Models, Simplified Sagas, and Cross-functional Collaboration
This is part 2 in a 2-part series about BPMN and how it’s being applied to new use cases. You can find part 1 here. A sincere thanks to Bernd Rücker for his feedback during the writing of both blog posts. Welcome back to our discussion of BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation) and its role in emerging use cases such as microservices orchestration. You don’t have to read the posts in order to be able to follow along, but if you’re new to BPMN, you might find it helpful to start with part 1. To recap, the first post covered: An introduction to BPMN Why a well-established standard that thrived in the past can thrive in the future, too…
3 août 2018
Camunda 7.10.0-alpha2 Released
The second alpha release of Camunda BPM 7.10 is here and the highlights are: Cascading History Cleanup based on process hierarchy Notable security fixes Start process list changes in Tasklist Modify single process asynchronously More supported environments – PostgreSQL 10.4 and MariaDB 10.3 18 Bug Fixes
3 août 2018
Camunda Optimize 2.2.0-alpha1 Released
We are happy to announce the release of Camunda Optimize version 2.2.0-alpha1. This release marks the first alpha release of Camunda Optimize 2.2.0. Although it is just an alpha release, it is already packed with new brilliant features. The release allows to group process instance frequencies and durations by variable. Also you can perform additional operations like minimum, maximum and median on duration reports. Narrow down your view on the data even further by using the new canceled process instance only or non-executed flow node filter. Use Optimize to see even faster when certain targets (e.g. KPI’s or SLA’s) were not met by using the the new goal line in the bar chart. The new version contains not only improvements…
By Kyrylo Zakurdaiev, Omran Abazeed, Johannes Heinemann, Sebastian Stamm
1 août 2018
BPMN and Microservices Orchestration, Part 1 of 2: Flow Languages, Engines, and Timeless Patterns
A sincere thanks to Bernd Rücker for his feedback during the writing of this blog post. This is part 1 of 2 in a 2-part blog post series. Part 2 is available here. We’re building Zeebe to be a next-generation workflow engine for emerging use cases such as microservices orchestration–use cases that may require an engine to handle hundreds of thousands (or millions) of new workflow instances per second. And to do that, we’re using a graphical modeling standard that’s been around for almost 15 years: BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation).
26 juil. 2018
The ‘Platformization’ of Workflow at Goldman Sachs: A Camunda Day NYC Recap
In June 2018, Camunda hosted a Camunda Days New York City event at the Galvanize space in SoHo, our second New York community event in the past 12 months. Members of the Camunda team from our Berlin, Denver, and San Francisco offices traveled to spend time with the local user and customer community and to share updates on Camunda’s product lineup, from Zeebe to Optimize. Headlining the event was an in-depth presentation from Richard Tarling and Randall Graebner of Goldman Sachs, who discussed how the firm has built widely-used internal platforms for both workflows and decisions. “Platformization” of workflow tooling inside of companies is a common trend, and the presentation provides a behind-the-scenes look at how such a platform has…
By Mike Winters
20 juil. 2018
What’s New in Zeebe: Community Projects, a Go Client Overview, Microservices Orchestration Survey, and Zeebe at Conferences and Events
It’s time for the July 2018 edition of “What’s New In Zeebe”, where we share an update of what we’re working on in between releases plus other news from the project.
13 juil. 2018
Scripting with DMN inside BPMN
In Camunda, you can use scripts at different places of a process. For example, inside a Script Task, as an execution/task listener, as a condition expression on a sequence flow or inside an input/output mapping. Usually, the scripts are written in JavaScript, Groovy or JUEL. Using the FEEL extension, it is also possible to write scripts in FEEL (Friendly Enough Expression Language) which is a part of the DMN specification.
