Zeebe:
Cloud Native Workflow and Decision Engine
Automate processes at scale with unprecedented performance and resilience
Zeebe is the workflow and decision engine that powers Camunda.
Zeebe’s cloud-native design provides the performance, resilience, and security enterprises need to future-proof their process orchestration efforts.
- Horizontal scalability via a distributed architecture designed for high throughput
- Sophisticated mechanism for asynchronous communication with microservices
- Language-agnostic approach means you can build clients in any programming language
“The technical vision behind Zeebe challenged us to re-invent the workflow engine with cloud native principles.
Our next generation workflow engine had to scale horizontally for high volume use cases while also having fault tolerance via replication rather than via a central database – this is what we designed several years back and what is now battle-tested and the heart of Camunda.”
Daniel Meyer
CTO, Camunda
Mind-blowing performance at any volume
It’s easy to distribute processing across a cluster of machines to deliver high throughput.
Add cluster nodes to process an unlimited number of transactions at consistent low latencies.
Enterprise-grade resilience
Zeebe distributes data across all brokers in a cluster with storage directly on the server filesystem. If one broker goes down, another can replace it with no data loss.
This pre-configured replication mechanism ensures that Camunda can recover from machine or software failure with no human interaction, no data loss and minimal downtime.
Modern design that reduces potential exposure
Zeebe leverages an external task pattern that decouples the workflow engine from the application and process solution. This shift in architecture comes with many advantages over an embedded engine that could lead to vulnerabilities if an extension is malformed or nefarious.
Additionally, Camunda is ISO 27001 and SOC2 Type 1 and Type 2 certified. Read more about Camunda’s security.
Standards-based engine that eliminates workplace silos
Zeebe executes visual processes that are modeled in ISO-standard BPMN and DMN, allowing technical and non-technical stakeholders to collaborate on process design in a widely-used modeling language.
The flexibility developers need
Use out-of-the-box clients or any gRPC-supported programming language to implement job workers that send commands to Zeebe to deploy processes, execute business logic and handle operational issues.
It’s easy to manage Camunda-based code in your source control system and add it to automated tests and CI/CD pipelines.
Message-driven design for stable, asynchronous communication
Zeebe’s brokers and clients communicate entirely via publish-subscribe, making it possible to adhere to the principle of loose coupling and enabling asynchronous communication between Zeebe and microservices.
Zeebe’s subscription protocol includes a backpressure mechanism, ensuring that clients aren’t overloaded with work from the process engine.
