The Zeebe Blog
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. Read more…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. Read more…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 Zeebe clients–but also Python, Ruby, C#, PHP, and more.
- We’ll show you step-by-step how we generated and started prototyping with a Python client stub in less than an hour, and we’ll provide everything you need to follow along.
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. Read more…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. Read more…Zeebe, Event-Driven Architectures, and More: Talk Recordings from Kafka Summit SF and CamundaCon
It’s been a busy past month for the Zeebe team here at Camunda. At the end of September, we took the stage at CamundaCon, our annual user conference, and in mid-October, we traveled to San Francisco to give a presentation at Kafka Summit.
Read more…Announcing the Zeebe 0.12 Release: Message Correlation, Parallel Processing, and More
The Zeebe team is excited to announce the 0.12 release. To get started with Zeebe 0.12, please see our installation guide.
It’s been 3 months since the Zeebe 0.11 release, and we’ve been hard at work adding new BPMN symbols that will enable Zeebe to support a range of new use cases.
The 0.12 release also includes a number of architectural changes to Zeebe that make it a much simpler system that’s more focused on its core use case: high-throughput, low-latency workflow automation.
Read more…An Overview of Conceptual Changes in Zeebe 0.12
If you’ve already read the Zeebe 0.12 release announcement, then you know that in addition to significant advancements in BPMN support, Zeebe 0.12 includes changes to the scope of the problem that Zeebe solves and introduces a couple of new concepts.
In this post, we’ll walk through those changes in more detail so that it’s clear what’s different about Zeebe and why we’ve decided to take a different approach.
Read more…What's New In Zeebe: BPMN Symbol Support, Zeebe + Apache Kafka, New Conference Talks, and More
Hi everyone, here’s our roundup of goings-on in and around the Zeebe project for September 2018. This month, we’ll cover newly-supported BPMN symbols in Zeebe, a Zeebe + Apache Kafka demo, conference talk recordings featuring Bernd, and more.
Read more…The Results Are In! A Review of The 2018 Microservices Orchestration Survey
In this blog post, we’ll share a few highlights from the microservices orchestration survey that we fielded in July 2018. If you’d like to download a report with results, you can do so here.
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