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 i ..read more

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 Communi ..read more

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 ..read more

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 b ..read more

In this episode, Josh talks with Rin Oliver, Camunda's Technical Community Builder and steward of the Camunda Community Hub. You can check out Rin's website at https://www.ckoliver.com/. And check out their closing keynote (aka locknote) from the Diana Initiative "Rising from the Ashes" on YouTube.   ..read more

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 ..read more

 In this episode, we catch up with Nico Rehwaldt, the leader of the BPMN.io project. We talk about his views on the history of the project, how open source it is, what's included (DMN.js, BPMN.js, Forms.js), what's new in the project, and the weirdest places that Nico has seen them being used ..read more

This month, we look at the top eight questions about Camunda Platform 8 - as determined by the super-scientific rule of thumb of what people ask about in Meetups and on the Forum and Slack. A number of these questions were discussed in a panel discussion at a US Camunda User Group Meetup with consultants from NTConsult. If you want to watch that, you can view a recording on Youtube. Here are the top eight questions covered in this episode: 1. Camunda 8 relies on a remote engine paradigm instead of the embedded engine which is more common on the Spring Boot implementations. What are the adva ..read more

Robot Framework is an open source framework for automation used for testing and robotic process automation. This episode's guest, Markus Stahl, has been using Robot Framework with Camunda 7 and Python, using the external task worker pattern. In this conversation, Markus and Niall Deehan discuss Robot Framework, as well as some of the key differences between Camunda 8 and Camunda 7. As mentioned in the episode, you can check out Markus and Asko on Twitch.                                         ..read more

In this special episode, Developer Advocate Niall Deehan sits down with Camunda Co-founder and Chief Technologist Bernd Ruecker to discuss the newly released Camunda Platform 8 and what users of Camunda Platform 7 need to know. A few questions that are addressed in this episode: How is Camunda 8 different from  Camunda 7?  What inspired this next generation of Camunda Platform, powered by Zeebe?  When does it make sense to move to Camunda Platform 8? If you want to find out more about Camunda Platform 8 from the experts or be among the first to try  Camunda Platform 8 i ..read more