Camunda Platform Message Buffering?

Camunda 7 Topics Discussion & Questions
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@BerndRuecker, I’m reading your book “Practical Process Automation” and your thoughts about message buffering in chapter 9. I’m wondering if this is on the roadmap for Camunda Platform.

– Edit
I found this JIRA item and recommend others upvote it.
https://jira.camunda.com/browse/CAM-13320

Thanks,
Doug

2

Hey Doug - I hope you enjoy the book! This is currently not on the roadmap - especially as this is actually a bigger topic to tackle.

But we have message buffering in Zeebe, which is the workflow engine within Camunda Cloud: Messages | Camunda Cloud Docs. Depending on your project phase, it might be simply interesting to look at Camunda Cloud?

Best
Bernd

3

Unfortunately that’s not in the cards at this time.
Just curious, what makes it a bigger topic to tackle in the platform? Do you have a few minutes to explain?

4

Couple of things:

  • Storing the message somewhere
  • Adding the mechanism to correlate any waiting messages
  • Cleanup messages upon TTL
  • design concept to make this backward compatible - might even make the API more complicated
  • Adjusting docs, best practices and examples
  • Probably further add it in cockpit
  • …

Given that it has landed in Zeebe I would find it unlikely that we bring it to Camunda Platform - but you do exactly the right thing: Find other users to vote for it - I cross fingers (don’t get the wrong impression - I personally would love to see it of course :-))

5

Somebody mentioned to me Apache Camel in a Camunda discussion. I’m just digging in to understand Camel. Is there anything that would aid in this?

6

You can also look into this GitHub for Camunda and Camel integration.

7

Thanks. I did find that. I just don’t know enough about Camel to determine if it meets the needs that @BerndRuecker described in his book.