Managing a brownfield when you simply don’t have a green one — With Camunda Platform 8 out of the door now, I’ve been having frequent discussions around migration. Many of them go along the lines of: “We are invested in Camunda 7, including a lot of best practices, project templates, and even code artifacts. We can’t quickly migrate to Camunda 8, so…

With Camunda Platform 8 being available to the public, we regularly answer questions about our open source strategy and the licenses for its various components. …

“Can I execute 10, 100, or 1,000 process instances per second on this Camunda 8 cluster?” — This is a typical question we get these days, and it can be answered using benchmarking. Let’s explore this fascinating topic in today’s post. Our benchmarking journey and some technical background Internally, benchmarking was an interesting journey, which I quickly want to recap first. From day one, one engineering goal behind Zeebe, the workflow engine within Camunda…

For a long time, we have advocated for an architecture that runs the Camunda workflow engine embedded into your own Java application, preferably via the Camunda Spring Boot Starter. But over time, we gradually moved away from this default recommendation in favor of a remote engine. In Zeebe, we don’t…

Introduced in 2015, the external task pattern is on the rise. Instead of the workflow engine actively calling some code (push), the external task pattern adds the work in a sort of queue and lets workers pull for it. This method is also known as publish/subscribe. …

Do you need to integrate multiple components without the help of ACID (atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability) transaction managers? Then, this blog post is for you. I will first briefly explain what transaction managers are and why you might not have them at your disposal in modern architecture. I will…

This article was originally posted on techspective. Imagine your CEO wants you to increase process automation as part of the organization’s push towards becoming a digital enterprise. As a first project, you need to automate the payroll run, which is a manual and tedious process at your company currently. How…

Earlier this year, I introduced the idea of the process automation map. Over time, it has proven useful in several customer scenarios. In today’s post, I’ll dive deeper into the dimensions of the map to help you rate your processes. I recommend reviewing the introduction to the process automation map…

Camunda Cloud Architecture Blog Post Series — Part 3 — Part one of this blog post series (Connecting The Workflow Engine With Your World) described that custom glue code is often used to invoke services (or to write customized logic). Service tasks within Camunda Cloud require you to set a task type and implement job workers who perform whatever needs…