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Camunda Community Podcast

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Welcome to the Camunda Community Podcast, your source for information about BPMN, DMN, and general process orchestration topics. Host and Camunda Senior Developer Advocate Niall Deehan and members of our Developer Relations team will dive deep with subject matter experts into topics like process automation, orchestration, and optimization; how you can contribute to the future of process orchestration; Camunda 8; leveraging AI and ML in your processes; scaling process automation; building and growing Centers of Excellence; best practices; and more. 

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Episodes

Dynamic Scaling of Zeebe Brokers: “Christmas is coming, so I'm going to get new orders, so I'm going to scale”

March 21, 2024 12:00 - 33 minutes - 22.8 MB

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 capabili...

10 years of bpmn.io: “Empowering people to be better at BPMN”

February 20, 2024 13:00 - 32 minutes - 22.4 MB

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.  Joi...

A Developer-friendly Citizen Developer, They *DO* Exist: “I do not implement code. I like low-code”

December 07, 2023 13:00 - 26 minutes - 18.3 MB

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 citi...

Migrating to Camunda Platform 8, Part 2: Data - “It’s a very exciting journey”

September 14, 2023 12:00 - 19 minutes - 13.5 MB

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 Luka...

Migrating to Camunda Platform 8, Part 1: Process Models + Business Logic - “You can migrate any kind of implementation”

August 30, 2023 12:00 - 33 minutes - 23.2 MB

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 ...

Inbound and Outbound Connectors: "Woah, it's so easy!"

July 19, 2023 12:00 - 20 minutes - 13.8 MB

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...

Camunda 7 to 8 Migration, with Bernd Ruecker

October 25, 2022 06:00 - 38 minutes - 26.2 MB

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 ne...

Camunda 8 Connectors: Reusable Integrations

August 16, 2022 05:00 - 30 minutes - 21.1 MB

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 develope...

All about BPMN.io

July 19, 2022 06:00 - 33 minutes - 23.2 MB

 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. --- Visit our website. Connect with us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Mastodon, Threads, and Bluesky. Check out our videos on YouTube. Tweet with us. --- Camunda enables organizations to orchestrate pr...

All about BPMN.io

July 19, 2022 06:00 - 33 minutes - 23.2 MB

 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.

Top Eight Questions about Camunda Platform 8

June 27, 2022 06:00 - 24 minutes - 17 MB

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 i...

Camunda and Robot Framework

May 19, 2022 07:00 - 32 minutes - 22.6 MB

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.                                   ...

Camunda Platform 8 for Camunda 7 users

April 12, 2022 13:00 - 48 minutes - 33.5 MB

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 C...

Optimize with Eric Lundberg

March 21, 2022 02:00 - 31 minutes - 21.5 MB

In this episode we talk with Eric Lundberg, Senior Product Manager for Camunda Optimize. Optimize is a "Business Intelligence tool for BPMN", providing you with actionable insights into your processes running on Camunda Platform or Camunda Cloud.  Eric gives us the low-down on the value that Camunda Optimize provides to business and technical users, how it can be leveraged across the whole of business - including fully manual processes and parts of the business that are digitised but not i...

Testing BPMN Processes - Two Approaches

February 09, 2022 03:00 - 1 hour - 46.3 MB

In this episode, Simon Zambrovski and I discuss two different "flavors" or approaches to testing BPMN processes - a unit-test approach and a behaviour-driven approach. We debated making this two episodes, but eventually landed on keeping the two approaches together, so you can consider them at once. If you are familiarwith the unit-testing one that we describe first, skip ahead to learn about behaviour-driven testing. --- Visit our website. Connect with us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Mastodon,...

Managing Data in Processes, with Simon Zambrovski

January 05, 2022 17:00 - 41 minutes - 28.6 MB

Simon Zambrovski, a consultant at Holisticon and a Camunda Champion, shares from his years of experience implementing solutions with Camunda. In this episode we look at "managing data in processes". We examine questions like where to put data, how to structure it, how to get the coupling right. Whether you are looking down the keyboard at your very first POC with Camunda, or looking to compare your own best practices with some of the best in the business, this episode has something for you...

Behind the Scenes of #CamundaCon 2021

November 23, 2021 13:00 - 28 minutes - 19.9 MB

Welcome to the latest episode of the Camunda Nation Podcast, where we go behind the scenes of CamundaCon 2021. To kick off the conversation, Camunda Developer Advocate Niall Deehan first chats with Mary Thengvall, our director of developer relations and CamundaCon moderator. Throughout their conversation, they discuss how she experienced this year’s hybrid event from the main stage and why she’s excited about the upcoming Camunda Community Summit in 2022. To close out the show, Niall connect...

Hacktoberfest 2021

October 07, 2021 05:00 - 27 minutes - 19 MB

In this episode, Rin, Danielle, and Josh talk about Hacktoberfest. Camunda is again participating in the month-long event, and giving out a limited edition Camunda Hacktoberfest t-shirt to qualifying contributors. For more details on Camunda's Hacktoberfest program, check the official Camunda Hacktoberfest 2021 page. --- Visit our website. Connect with us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Mastodon, Threads, and Bluesky. Check out our videos on YouTube. Tweet with us. --- Camunda enables organiz...

The Camunda Champions Program

September 20, 2021 07:00 - 57 minutes - 39.5 MB

In this episode we introduce the Camunda Champions program, championed by our Global Community Manager Luca Buchholz, and speak with Camunda Champions around the world. Featured in this episode: Michelle Chand (US) William Buzatto (Brazil) Alexey Vinogradov (Russia) Jan Galinski (Germany) Simon Zambrovski (Germany) For more details on the Camunda Champions Program, and to apply for the upcoming intake, visit the official Camunda Champions website. --- Visit our website. Connect with...

BPMN Driven Testing Camunda

September 01, 2021 12:00 - 31 minutes - 21.8 MB

On this episode of the Camunda Nation Podcast, we’re joined by cimt ag Full Stack Developer and Consultant Gabor Claussnitzer to dive into one of the newest additions to the Camunda Community Hub, the BPMN Driven Testing extension. Highlights include why Gabor built this extension, his journey so far with BPMN, upcoming features and highlights that you can expect with the BPMN Driven Testing extension, and more. --- Visit our website. Connect with us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Mastodon, Thread...

BPMN Driven Testing Camunda

September 01, 2021 12:00 - 31 minutes - 21.8 MB

On this episode of the Camunda Nation Podcast, we’re joined by cimt ag Full Stack Developer and Consultant Gabor Claussnitzer to dive into one of the newest additions to the Camunda Community Hub, the BPMN Driven Testing extension. Highlights include why Gabor built this extension, his journey so far with BPMN, upcoming features and highlights that you can expect with the BPMN Driven Testing extension, and more.

Meet the Camundi: Rin Oliver, Technical Community Builder

August 06, 2021 12:00 - 20 minutes - 14.1 MB

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.   --- Visit our website. Connect with us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Mastodon, Threads, and Bluesky. Check out our videos on YouTube. Tweet with us. --- Camunda enables organizations to orc...

Meet the Camundos: Rin Oliver, Technical Community Builder

August 06, 2021 12:00 - 20 minutes - 14.1 MB

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.  

What Camunda Platform Architecture are you?

June 24, 2021 10:00 - 50 minutes - 35 MB

In this episode, Camunda Developer Advocate Niall Deehan walks us through selecting from the various options for a Camunda Platform architecture. Springboot? Camunda Run? Embedded? Distributed? Java? Not Java? The options are non-trivial, but Niall walks us through the answer to the question: "Sure, it depends - but what does it depend on?" in a way that reveals the various factors and their influences on architecture. The BPMN diagram for this episode is available on GitHub. --- Visit ...

Camunda Modeler, Cawemo, and BPMN.io

May 27, 2021 09:00 - 32 minutes - 22.3 MB

Today we talk all things BPMN Modelling with Maciej Barelkowski, a core engineer on Camunda Modeler and bpmn.io team. We recorded this talk in March, and talk about the "upcoming April release" - well, a lot of those features came out in the May release, and are available NOW. --- Visit our website. Connect with us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Mastodon, Threads, and Bluesky. Check out our videos on YouTube. Tweet with us. --- Camunda enables organizations to orchestrate processes across pe...

Camunda Cloud Turns 1.0

May 11, 2021 03:00 - 43 minutes - 30 MB

Camunda Cloud 1.0 went GA this week!  And the podcast formerly known as "Zeebe Nation" is now "Camunda Nation", with a broader scope, covering all of Camunda's products and projects (including Zeebe and Camunda Cloud). I'm joined in this episode by Daniel Meyer, Camunda's CTO; Felix Mueller, product owner of Camunda Cloud; and Sebastian Menski, Director of Camunda Cloud Engineering. We talk about what 1.0 means, and what's next for Camunda Cloud and Zeebe. --- Visit our website. Connect...

Beez - a Ruby on Rails client for Zeebe

September 14, 2020 08:00 - 43 minutes - 29.6 MB

This episode we chat with Pierre-Louis Gottfrois in Paris. Pierre-Louis is the author of the Ruby on Rails client Beez. Check it out on GitHub: https://github.com/gottfrois/beez. --- Visit our website. Connect with us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Mastodon, Threads, and Bluesky. Check out our videos on YouTube. Tweet with us. --- Camunda enables organizations to orchestrate processes across people, systems, and devices to continuously overcome complexity and increase efficiency. With Camun...

Bernd Ruecker - Books

June 09, 2020 14:00 - 18 minutes - 12.5 MB

This month, I talk with Camunda Chief Technologist and Co-founder Bernd Ruecker. In the second part of this three part podcast, we talk about Bernd's first book "Real World BPMN", and the new book that he is working on. --- Visit our website. Connect with us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Mastodon, Threads, and Bluesky. Check out our videos on YouTube. Tweet with us. --- Camunda enables organizations to orchestrate processes across people, systems, and devices to continuously overcome compl...

Bernd Ruecker - CamundaCon and Virtual Conferences

June 09, 2020 14:00 - 19 minutes - 13.5 MB

This month, I talk with Camunda Chief Technologist and Co-founder Bernd Ruecker. In the third part of this three part podcast, we talk about CamundaCon and virtual developer conferences in the era of Covid. --- Visit our website. Connect with us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Mastodon, Threads, and Bluesky. Check out our videos on YouTube. Tweet with us. --- Camunda enables organizations to orchestrate processes across people, systems, and devices to continuously overcome complexity and inc...

Bernd Ruecker - The Birth of Camunda and Zeebe

June 09, 2020 14:00 - 19 minutes - 13.2 MB

This month, I talk with Camunda Chief Technologist and Co-founder Bernd Ruecker. In the first of this three part podcast, we talk about the history of Camunda and how Zeebe came about and fits into the Camunda vision. --- Visit our website. Connect with us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Mastodon, Threads, and Bluesky. Check out our videos on YouTube. Tweet with us. --- Camunda enables organizations to orchestrate processes across people, systems, and devices to continuously overcome complex...

Istvan Molnar - Zeebe, Mojaloop, and Africa's future finance

May 14, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 41.6 MB

In this episode, I talk with Istvan Molnar, in Budapest, Hungary. Istvan is working on a Zeebe solution with the Mifos Foundation for the future of financial transactions in the emerging market of Africa. Links to resources mentioned in the episode: Zeebe Mifos Initiative Mojaloop Foundation Apache Fineract --- Visit our website. Connect with us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Mastodon, Threads, and Bluesky. Check out our videos on YouTube. Tweet with us. --- Camunda enables organization...

Camunda Cloud - Working from home

April 02, 2020 15:00 - 57 minutes - 39.7 MB

I interview the team working on Camunda Cloud - who also happen to be Camunda's first fully remote engineering team from Day 1. --- Visit our website. Connect with us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Mastodon, Threads, and Bluesky. Check out our videos on YouTube. Tweet with us. --- Camunda enables organizations to orchestrate processes across people, systems, and devices to continuously overcome complexity and increase efficiency. With Camunda, business users and developers collaborate using ...

2019 Roundup + Camunda Cloud and Kubernetes

March 04, 2020 19:00 - 36 minutes - 25.1 MB

Season 2 Episode 1 opens with a roundup of the Zeebe Nation podcast in 2019, recorded live in Kreuzberg, Germany; then continues with a chat with the maintainer of the Zeebe Helm charts - Mauricio Salatino, Zeebe Dev advocate based in London. --- Visit our website. Connect with us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Mastodon, Threads, and Bluesky. Check out our videos on YouTube. Tweet with us. --- Camunda enables organizations to orchestrate processes across people, systems, and devices to conti...

Future Trends in Business, Microservices, and AI

December 09, 2019 13:00 - 26 minutes - 18.2 MB

In this episode, I speak with BPM Consultant and Industry Analyst Sandy Kemsley about future trends in business, microservices, and AI.  This is Part 1 of our conversation. In Part 2, we talk about Sandy's experience in business transformation and making business process-agile. --- Visit our website. Connect with us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Mastodon, Threads, and Bluesky. Check out our videos on YouTube. Tweet with us. --- Camunda enables organizations to orchestrate processes across ...

Zeebe and NestJS

November 04, 2019 05:00 - 26 minutes - 18.4 MB

Dan Shapir is the CTO of PayK, an Australian/Israeli fintech company. He is also the author of the open-source NestJS Zeebe integration. In this interview we talk about NestJS, Zeebe, using a workflow engine to orchestrate microservices, and the effect of technology choices on hiring pressures in a start-up rich economy. PayK's website: www.payk.com.au Dan's Zeebe integration for NestJS: @payk/nestjs-zeebe NestJS: nestjs.com Zeebe Node package: zeebe-node Zeebe Project: zeebe.io --- V...

Zeebe and Open Democracy in the Netherlands

October 16, 2019 08:00 - 28 minutes - 19.5 MB

Jesse Van Muijden and his team, working in the Ministry of Social Welfare in the Netherlands, have developed a Zeebe-based system that brings transparency to government processes for citizens. In this interview we talk about the tech stack: Node.js, Kafka.js, Java, Docker, and Zeebe, the innovative solution they've designed, and Jesse's experience developing on Zeebe. Check out the source code for their project on GitLab. --- Visit our website. Connect with us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Mast...

Zeebe and the Internet of Things with Node-RED

October 01, 2019 06:00 - 18 minutes - 12.7 MB

An interview with Patrick Dehn - author of the Node-RED nodes for Zeebe - and Cornelius Suermann. We talked Home Automation, IoT, and Zeebe, while in Sweden! --- Visit our website. Connect with us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Mastodon, Threads, and Bluesky. Check out our videos on YouTube. Tweet with us. --- Camunda enables organizations to orchestrate processes across people, systems, and devices to continuously overcome complexity and increase efficiency. With Camunda, business users and...

Mauricio Salatino - Zeebe and Kubernetes

September 20, 2019 12:00 - 16 minutes - 11 MB

Introducing Mauricio Salatino, developer advocate for Zeebe at Camunda. Mauricio comes from the open-source BPM community, and has a focus on Kubernetes. You can tweet him @salaboy on Twitter, chat with him online in the Zeebe Slack, or grab him for a coffee in London, where he lives; or at KubeCon in San Diego, where he is speaking in November. On Tuesday 24 September, 2019, Mauricio is speaking at The London Java Community Meetup. Hit him up and say "Hi!" if you are in the area. --- Vi...

Zeebe: Bringing Distributed Systems to Workflow Engines

August 28, 2019 21:00 - 58 minutes - 40.3 MB

I interviewed Daniel Meyer - Camunda CTO and Zeebe committer #0 - to find out the history of Zeebe. How did such a revolutionary reinvention of the workflow engine come about? Did it emerge fully formed from an R&D lab? Or was it an incremental process? Daniel walks us through the discoveries that lead to Zeebe over several years. --- Visit our website. Connect with us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Mastodon, Threads, and Bluesky. Check out our videos on YouTube. Tweet with us. --- Camunda ...

Zeebe and Rust - interview with Mackenzie Clark

July 30, 2019 08:00 - 49 minutes - 34.1 MB

An interview with Mackenzie Clark, the maintainer of the open source Zeebe Rust client - Zeebest. We talk about Rust, Web Assembly, and Zeebe. Check out Zeebest on GitHub: https://github.com/xmclark/zeebest --- Visit our website. Connect with us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Mastodon, Threads, and Bluesky. Check out our videos on YouTube. Tweet with us. --- Camunda enables organizations to orchestrate processes across people, systems, and devices to continuously overcome complexity and in...

Zeebe and Open Source with Daniel Meyer

July 23, 2019 04:00 - 31 minutes - 21.5 MB

An interview in Berlin with Daniel Meyer, Camunda CTO and Zeebe Committer #0, covering Open Source, Zeebe, the recent license change, and how companies can be sustainable and successful while staying true to Open Source in the new world of cloud-native services. --- Visit our website. Connect with us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Mastodon, Threads, and Bluesky. Check out our videos on YouTube. Tweet with us. --- Camunda enables organizations to orchestrate processes across people, systems, ...

Zeebe 0.20.0 "Production Ready" with Sebastian Menski

July 17, 2019 10:00 - 37 minutes - 25.5 MB

An interview in Berlin with Sebastian Menski, Engineering Manager of the Zeebe dev team, on the eve of the release of Zeebe 0.20.0 - the first production-ready release of Zeebe. --- Visit our website. Connect with us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Mastodon, Threads, and Bluesky. Check out our videos on YouTube. Tweet with us. --- Camunda enables organizations to orchestrate processes across people, systems, and devices to continuously overcome complexity and increase efficiency. With Camunda...

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