Camunda Community Podcast

On this episode of the Camunda Community Podcast, we dive into Camunda Optimize and how it helps visualize the value of process orchestration and automation and unlock continuous process improvement with Senior Product Manager Tobias Conz and Developer Advocate Samantha Holstine. The two even discuss how using Camunda Optimize daily is like training to earn a black belt in karate. 

Listen to learn: 

• What is Camunda Optimize?
• How developers can use Camunda Optimize to build, monitor, and improve processes
• Why continuous process improvement is vital to business success and the proper application of "developer force"
• Tobias’ top tip for how developers and business stakeholders can use Camunda Optimize as they’re building processes to ensure alignment with key objectives
• What’s next for Optimize

Camunda is designed to orchestrate processes from end to end: designing + modeling, testing + deploying, automating, + improving. Optimize provides process intelligence and analytics so users can better understand and improve their process orchestration and automation efforts. Descriptive reporting, dashboards, and custom notifications make it easy to cut through the noise and focus on the most important data, share real-time process insights, remove process bottlenecks, and unlock continuous improvement to make better business decisions and scale end-to-end process orchestration.

But it’s not just business users who can benefit from Optimize. These reports and dashboards can help developers build better processes, measure the value of their work, and communicate that value to leaders in a common language that all can understand, regardless of technical skills.

Additional Resources

[docs] What is Optimize?

[docs] Improve processes with Optimize

[blog] Improving Process Intelligence with Camunda Optimize

[blog] From Insights to Action: Harnessing Camunda Optimize for Effective Development

[video] How Developers Can Make the Most of Camunda Optimize

[github] Camunda Optimize Examples

[guide] Definitive Guide to Continuous Process Improvement

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On this episode of the Camunda Community Podcast, we explore the Camunda Forum with two of its all-stars: Jean Robert Alves of AgiBank and Thomas Heinrichs from Miragon. Camunda Senior Technical Community Builder Mia Moore joins Jean Robert and Thomas in this deep dive into the Camunda Forum, what makes it such a special place to connect with other Camunda users, and why they keep returning. 

Although the two have had very different user journeys and interests, Jean Robert and Thomas are among our most active Forum users and community members. You’re likely to see them answering questions of all sorts and giving talks at different events. Keep listening to this episode to learn:

• How they found the Camunda Forum
• What the Camunda Forum (and Camunda Community) means to them
• The most interesting discussions they’ve come across
• Their tips for how you can get more involved in the community discussion

The Camunda Forum is the place for community discussion about Camunda, including business process management and process orchestration. It is also a great place to connect with our team about your questions and feedback. One of the best parts: the Forum is completely open to all to browse through topics and discussions so there’s no need to sign up for an account unless you’d like to join the conversation–which we hope you do because we love hearing from our users! 

Join us on the Camunda Forum. 

• Connect with Jean Robert: Camunda Forum | LinkedIn | Catch up on his Camunda Community Summit 2023 talk here. 
• Connect with Thomas: Camunda Forum | LinkedIn
• Connect with Mia: Camunda Forum | LinkedIn
• Connect with Niall: Camunda Forum | LinkedIn

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Additional Resources: 

• Learn more about the Camunda Developer Community here. 
• 2023 Camunda Community Impact Report
• [github] Camunda Community Hub

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On this episode of the Camunda Community Podcast, we discuss the dynamic scaling of Zeebe clusters. Host and Senior Developer Advocate Niall Deehan is joined by Senior Software Engineer Backend, Deepthi Akkoorath to learn more about this new feature and how it came to be, including the technical challenges we overcame and decisions we made, as well as what’s next for scaling Zeebe. 

Zeebe, the cloud-native workflow and decision engine that powers Camunda 8, has many next-generation capabilities, including a language-agnostic approach so you can build clients in any programming language, enterprise-grade resilience, and horizontal scaling via a distributed architecture. We have further improved this last one by providing the ability to dynamically scale Zeebe brokers and are committed to further enhancing this feature in the future. 

Listen to learn more about: 

• How this “daisy of destiny” came to Niall’s attention
• The structure of the Zeebe team and Deepthi’s role on the Zeebe Distributed Platform Team
• What is the dynamic scaling Zeebe brokers? 
• How users can dynamically add brokers
• What actually happens under the hood when dynamically scaling Zeebe
• How to scale down Zeebe
• Failover with scaling Zeebe
• What’s next for dynamic scaling 

Learn more about Zeebe: https://bit.ly/3vjvslt

Get started with Camunda 8 today:
https://bit.ly/3vjM8tb

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Additional Resources:
[docs] Camunda 8 Concepts: Clusters
[docs] Zeebe Technical Concepts: Clustering
[docs] Create your cluster
[docs] Setting up a Zeebe cluster
[docs] Cluster Scaling
[github] Zeebe
[github issue] Dynamic resize of an existing Zeebe cluster
[github issue] [EPIC] Dynamic Scaling of Zeebe Cluster - Phat 1: Number of brokers
[github issue] Dynamically start and stop partitions
[blogpost] Zeebe Performance 2023 Year in Review

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On this episode of the Camunda Community Podcast we are celebrating 10 years of bpmn.io–can you believe it?–with host and Senior Developer Advocate Niall Deehan and special guest Nico Rehwaldt, the creator of bpmn.io and principal engineer here at Camunda. 

Today, bpmn.io has a vibrant community of active users and contributors, has gone beyond Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN), and is used throughout almost every front end Camunda product. 

But this was not always the case. 

Join us on this journey from the starting vision, “BPMN everywhere, for everyone,” through inspiring community contributions and scope jumps (Hello Decision Model and Notation [DMN] and forms!), all the way to what the next 10 years might hold. 

Listen to learn more about: 

• bpmn.io and why it’s a set of libraries instead of an app
• Why Nico believes Camunda is lucky he was asked to build a solution for drawing BPMN
• A very brief history of modeling tools
• Just how extensible bpmn.io really is
• Fun things the community has built with bpmn.io
• What the bpmn.io team does
• BPMN linting
• Token simulation
• One of Niall’s proudest moments

Additional Resources: 

• To learn more, please visit bpmn.io.
• Check out the bpmn.io blog.
• Join the bpmn.io forum.
• Follow bpmm.io on Mastodon and GitHub. 
• Continue learning about BPMN here. 
• Learn more about DMN here.
• Develop your skills even further with Camunda Academy.  

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Developer-friendliness is at our core and developer-friendly process orchestration is our passion. We believe pro-code concepts are absolutely essential to addressing the complexity of real-world automation. That is why we are combining pro-code capabilities with the ability to encapsulate code into reusable modules that we call “low-code accelerators.” These shortcuts are meant to benefit both technical and non-technical users. 

In this episode, we will follow along the journey of one citizen developer as she learned how to develop executable processes. Listen as Senior Technical Community Builder Mia Moore chats with Community Manager Maria Alcantara about her role here at Camunda, what inspired her to gain more technical process automation skills, and how this experience has enabled her to better collaborate with technical users like IT and software developers, provide feedback based on her experience, and grow in confidence. Mia and Maria also discuss their favorite Camunda 8 features as well as tips and resources for learning more about BPMN, DMN, and Camunda–spoiler alert: our Community is one of them. 

Listen to learn more about: 

• Camunda Community meet-ups, the Camunda Educational License Program, and the Camunda Champion Program
• The collaboration features of Camunda 8, including Connectors
• Tips for developers and other technical users
• Advice for citizen developers and low-code users 
• FEEL Playground

Share your questions or feedback about this episode on our forum.
Start your free trial of Camunda Platform 8.

Additional Resources: 

• Connect with Maria, Mia, and Niall on LinkedIn.
• [blog] Camunda’s Vision for Low-Code
• Camunda Academy

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When planning a migration to Camunda Platform 8, there are three main aspects to consider: model migration, business logic migration, and data migration. In the first of our two-part series, we covered migrating models and business logic (Catch up on Part 1 here). Now, we are exploring the final pillar–data migration–as well as the benefits of migrating to Camunda 8. 

Listen as Senior Developer Advocate Niall Deehan,  Senior Consultant Manuel (aka Manu) Dittmar, and Consultant Jonathan Lukas dive into data migration, sharing tips for what to do when you have a lot of historical data or long-running processes. They then explore their favorite Camunda 8 features and the benefits of migration. 

Listen to learn more about: 

• How Camunda 8 stores history variables
• What to do if you have a terabyte of historical data
• If and when you should migrate runtime data for long-running processes
• The benefits of migrating to Camunda 8 including Connectors and SaaS
• The opportunities that come with migration

Share your questions or feedback about this episode on our forum.
Start your free trial of Camunda Platform 8.
Save your seat for CamundaCon 2023.

Additional Resources

• Camunda Platform 7 To Camunda Platform 8 Migration Tooling
• [guide] Migrate to Camunda Platform 8 in 6 Steps
• [docs] Migrating to Camunda 8 from Camunda 7
• [blog] What to do When You Can’t Quickly Migrate to Camunda 8
• [podcast] Migrating to Camunda Platform 8, Part 1: Process Models + Business Logic - “You can migrate any kind of implementation”

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Since we introduced Camunda Platform 8, migration has been a hot topic among Camundi and users. For us, this is an ongoing topic that continues to evolve as we receive feedback from our community and customers, and as new technologies emerge. 

On this episode of the Camunda Community Podcast, Senior Developer Advocate Niall Deehan chats with Senior Consultant Manuel (aka Manu) Dittmar and Consultant Jonathan Lukas about the three main pillars of migrating to Camunda Platform 8 from Camunda 7: model migration, business logic migration, and data migration. This is a lot to cover, so we’re breaking it down into two episodes. 

In Part 1, Niall has plenty of questions for Manu (aka Manuel) and Jonathan regarding the strategy and practical implementation of migrating models and business logic. We start off discussing a brief history of Camunda 8; our key consideration points including documentation and tooling for helping customers and users migrate; and how the architecture of Camunda 8 better aligns with modern software architecture and service orchestration, creating a much faster workflow and decision engine. 

Listen to learn more about: 

• Key differences between Camunda 8 and Camunda 7, including why FEEL
• What will make for a smooth Camunda migration 
• Practical steps to get your models and business logic migration-ready
• Available tooling to help your migration journey

Share your questions or feedback about this episode on our forum.
Start your free trial of Camunda Platform 8.
Save your seat for CamundaCon 2023.

Additional Resources:
- [github] Camunda Platform 7 To Camunda Platform 8 Migration Tooling
- [guide] Migrate to Camunda Platform 8 in 6 Steps
- [docs] Migrating to Camunda 8 from Camunda 7
- [blog] What to do When You Can’t Quickly Migrate to Camunda 8

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Connectors are reusable building blocks that can communicate with any system or technology, providing unlimited flexibility and reducing the time it takes to automate and orchestrate business processes. Ever since we introduced Connectors with Camunda Platform 8, excitement has been growing and we’ve added more and more of them to meet the ever-increasing number of use cases. 

In this episode, Senior Technical Community Builder Mia Moore chats with Bastian Korber, senior product manager for Connectors and the Integration Framework, about Outbound and Inbound Connectors, their architectures, example use cases, and what’s next. Listen to learn about the main differences between the two, how Connectors can be deployed to build better processes and save you time, and why Bastian calls Inbound Connectors a “game-changer.”

Share your questions or feedback about this episode on our forum.
Start your free trial of Camunda Platform 8.
Save your seat for CamundaCon 2023. 

Additional Resources: 

• [github] Awesome Camunda 8 Connectors
• [docs] Connectors
• [blog] A Deep-Dive into the Architecture of Connectors
• [blog] Maximum Process Flexibility with Inbound Webhook Connectors
• [blog] Streamline Processes by Using Inbound Webhook Connectors as Intermediate Events
• [blog] Start a Camunda Platform 8 Process via REST with Webhooks
• [blog] Integrate External Systems Effortlessly with Custom Connectors in Camunda Platform
• [blog] Contributing to Camunda’s Connector ecosystem
• [blog] How to build a Camunda Platform 8 Connector
• [blog] A Unified Camunda Platform 8 SDK for Node.js
• [blog] Unraveling Connector Templates
•  Camunda Champion Program

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Earlier this year, Camunda Platform 8 was launched as the universal process orchestrator.  In this month’s episode, I talk with Bernd Ruecker, co-founder and chief technologist of Camunda, about migrating to Camunda 8 from Camunda 7. We cover when it makes sense to do it, how to do it, and what to do if you can’t do it right now.

Whether you have a production system running on Camunda 7, are currently developing a system on Camunda 7, or are evaluating which major version to use for your next project, this episode has got you covered on how you can prepare for a migration from Camunda Platform 7 to Camunda 8!

If you enjoyed this episode, we recommend checking out Bernd’s blog post, “What to do When You Can’t Quickly Migrate to Camunda 8.” 

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When Camunda Platform 8 launched earlier this year, we announced connectors. This month, I talk with Principal Software Engineer Nico Rehwaldt about connectors–what they are, how they relate to process modeling, and how you can get started.

Nico also shares how connectors are really designed for "the future me" and even makes the bold claim connectors in C8 are reusable behaviors done right, incorporating learnings and feedback from Camunda Platform 7 element templates and keeping developers and their future selves at the center of the design from the very beginning.

Additional Resources:
- A Technical Sneak Peek in Camunda's Connector Architecture by Bernd Ruecker
- Camunda 8 Connector SDK on GitHub

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