Camunda Blog
18 déc. 2020
Letters to Santa – Automating Joy to the World, At Scale
It’s that time of year again. The time when the world’s largest order fulfillment operation experiences its heaviest load. No, not Amazon – we’re talking about Santa Claus, Inc. – the largest logistics company in the world, with a 24-hour global delivery window at peak load. This year is different, however. Earlier this year, Saint Nick clicked on an ad on his Facebook feed, one promising a digital nomad lifestyle through automating his business. Sick of the Arctic weather and the stress of traveling, the thought of sitting on a beach in Thailand – while still bringing joy to children around the world – was enticing. Santa paid for the course and applied the principles of process automation, task decomposition…
17 déc. 2020
Retaining Community Knowledge on the Slack Free Tier with a Slack bot
“There is a lot of valuable information in this Slack, but whenever I come back to find it, it’s gone because of the 10,000 message limit. Can we move this community to Discord, which has persistent message history?” That message, from a community member in the Zeebe Slack, triggered a DevRel project that resulted in the Slack Archivist – a Slack bot that allows valuable conversations to be archived from the community Slack to a dedicated searchable topic in our Discourse-powered Forum. The Problem Slack is ubiquitous. You probably have it open right now, and are in several different Slack teams. We use Slack internally at Camunda, on a paid plan, and when it came time to stand something up…
By Josh Wulf
The Camunda Holiday Reading List 2020
Who doesn’t love a good book? The cold, dark and grey weather — at least in the Northern Hemisphere — is the perfect excuse to throw an extra log on the fire and sit down with a good book, and perhaps a glass of Glühwein. With the holidays ahead, we asked our colleagues across Camunda to share their reading recommendations — from books to sharpen your skills, improve your code and inspire your leadership, to reads that will make you stop and think about personal development. We hope you enjoy these books as much as we have: Books to hone your Engineering Knowledge Chris Zell, Software Developer Learning Chaos Engineering: Discovering and Overcoming System Weaknesses through Experimentation Chaos Engineering: System…
By Charley Mann
14 déc. 2020
Refactoring an Actor Model System from Nact.io to Camunda Cloud
This month marks the 20th anniversary of the Open Source Erlang language and the Erlang virtual machine. Renowned for its reliability, the ability to hot-patch running code, and the Actor model, Erlang has been incredibly influential in software development, particularly in scalable distributed systems. If you look through the Zeebe source code, you’ll see Actor components sprinkled throughout. Zeebe core engineer Deepthi Akkoorath did her PhD thesis in Scalable Consistency in theMulti-core Era and is a huge fan of Erlang. Here is a video of Deepthi describing the architecture of Zeebe, the workflow engine powering Camunda Cloud: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbXKgQQmukE A couple of months ago, I wrote a statistics collector for the Camunda DevRel team. You can see the project in the…
By Josh Wulf
9 déc. 2020
Camunda’s 2021 Predictions
The past year has been a wild ride. From remote work, homeschooling and pets on Zoom calls, to almost everybody discovering a surprising talent for baking. Banana bread aside, 2020 has been a milestone year for technology. One where the world realized that end-to-end process automation, powered by agile, scalable technologies, and combined with IT and business collaboration, are key ingredients for the new decade. So, what else do we think will be on the cards in 2021? Continuous Delivery, microservices, RPA, new emerging uses for process automation or even more uses for process audit data? Here’s a taste of the trends we believe will emerge in the coming year: An RPA Headache is brewing Companies like Deutsche Telekom have…
By Charley Mann
8 déc. 2020
Camunda Optimize 3.3.0-alpha2 Released
We’re excited to announce the release of Camunda Optimize 3.3.0-alpha2. Refreshed Report Builder and Reporting capabilities Process Analysis and Filtering improvements New Flow Node by Variable Process Reports Custom Values in Variable Filters Moving Process and Decision Reports across environments External Process Events Inspection and Deletion Improved Updates and Maintenance Resumable Updates Updated Support for Elasticsearch What’s next? How to get it? Camunda Optimize provides business activity monitoring for workflows, supporting continuous process improvement by providing transparency into your automated workflows and decisions. Business-friendly reports, dashboards, and alerts make it possible to identify process bottlenecks and improve end-to-end processes. If you’d like to get started with Optimize 3.3.0-alpha2 right away, you can download the release here with your Camunda Enterprise…
Camunda BPM Runtime 7.15.0-alpha2 Released
We are pleased to announce the next release of Camunda BPM 7.15 with you. This release features the following improvements: Extend OpenAPI documentation The Source Code of the Webapps has a new home Add Spring Boot 2.4.x Support Template Repositories for Maven Archetypes 11 Bug Fixes You can Download Camunda for free or Run it with Docker. For a complete list of all improvements, take a look at the release notes. Please also see the list of known issues.If you want to dig in deeper, you can find the source code on GitHub. Extend OpenAPI documentation Within this alpha release we added OpenAPI documentation for three REST API endpoints: Group Identity Tenant Please have a look at OpenAPI documentation page…
3 déc. 2020
Intuit: empowering SMBs with Process Automation
Small and medium-sized businesses face the same challenges as their bigger peers when customer and process numbers and, ultimately, revenue start to increase. However, unlike multinational enterprises and corporates, SMBs often lack the financial means to set up sophisticated IT departments to properly implement workflow and process automation. This is where Intuit comes in. Intuit provides software solutions for SMBs that empower them to automate their workflows using simple forms and templates, thus digitizing their businesses. This approach quickly pays off for its customers. In fact, Deloitte’s Connected Small Businesses US report reveals the most digitally advanced small businesses in the United States are more likely to create jobs and manage to significantly increase both revenue and top-line growth. At…
1 déc. 2020
Speeding Up RPA through Behavioural Observation
As more businesses leverage RPA to address the pain-points associated with individual components in legacy systems, it’s worth considering how to best introduce and integrate these tools to your advantage. At CamundaCon LIVE 2020.2, Andres Jimenez Ramirez from the Universidad de Sevilla, and Hajo A. Reijers from Utrecht University, explained how taking a human-centered approach to RPA implementation pays dividends in the future. Their research explores how RPA implementations typically mimic the behavior of human employees to automate manual tasks. In order to initially introduce RPA tools, most commercial platforms rely on a manual analysis to identify the tasks suitable for RPA automation. However, manual analysis is hugely time-consuming. It does not only involve the analysis of documentation, it is…
By Charley Mann
