Camunda Training Course for Architects

Who should attend

The course is largely aimed at IT Directors, CTOs, Software Architects, IT Project Managers, Software Developers, Business Analysts. We're also happy to tailor a bespoke course for your organisation in order to make sure the content and delivery is accessible and relevant to your requirements.

Prerequisites

The course does not involve hands-on coding, but an understanding of software / web / enterprise applications and / or business systems is strongly recommended.

Live, instructor-led online and on-site training

We appreciate that you need flexibility to fit in with new working situations - whether you're an individual, part of a distributed team, or simply have projects and deadlines to meet. 

Our remote training can take place online in a virtual classroom, with content split into modules to accommodate your scheduling challenges and meet your learning goals. Get in touch today to find out how we can help design a cost-effective, flexible training solution.

Introduction       

• Process Automation
• Workflow Engines and Executable Process Models
• An example Business Scenario
• Business Processes, Integration Processes, and Workflows
• Business and IT Collaboration
• Business Drivers and the Value of Process Automation
• The Story of Camunda 

The Rationale for using Camunda

• The Workflow Engine
• Camunda Architecture
• Additional Features of Workflow Platforms 
• Operations Tooling
• Task list Applications
• Business Monitoring and Reporting
• Intro to the Course case study

Using BPMN in Camunda Modeler

• Modelling at different layers: level 0, Level 1, Level 2…
• Start and End Events, tokens and Control Flow
• Sequence Flows: Controlling the Flow of Execution
• Tasks and Gateways
• Events: Waiting for Something to Happen
• Message Events: Waiting for a Trigger from the Outside
• Exercise: Modelling the case study in BPMN

Camunda Orchestration Basics

• Orchestration Software
• Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Services
• Microservices
• Serverless Functions (FAAS)
• Orchestrate Decisions
• Decision Model and Notation (DMN)
• Orchestrate Humans
• Task Assignment

Camunda Architecture        

• Architecture Trade-Offs
• Decentralized Engines 
• Ownership of Process Models
• Using the Workflow Engine as a Communication Channel
• Developer Experience and Continuous Delivery
• Evaluating Workflow Engines
• Demo: A quick look at the underlying XML representation of the process

Autonomy, Boundaries, and Isolation   

• Strong Cohesion and Low Coupling 
• Domain-Driven Design, Bounded Contexts, and Services
• Boundaries and Business Processes 
• Long-Running Behaviour
• Helps You Defend Boundaries 
• How Processes Communicate Across Boundaries
• Call Activities: Handy Shortcuts Only Within the Boundary
• Hands-on: Using a Call activity

Balancing Orchestration and Choreography                                 

• Event-Driven Systems
• Contrasting Orchestration and Choreography
• Messages, Events, and Commands
• The Direction of Dependency
• Hands-on: Implementing a simple choreography

Workflow Engines and Integration Challenges       

• Communication Patterns for Service Invocation
• Aggregating Messages
• Synchronous Facades Hiding Asynchronous Communication 
• Transactions and Consistency 
• Eventual Consistency
• The Saga Pattern and Compensation 
• Chaining Resources by Using the Outbox Pattern
• Eventual Consistency Applies to Every Form of Remote Communication

Process Visibility    

• Getting the Data
• Observability and Distributed Tracing Tools
• Data Warehouses, Data Lakes, and Business Intelligence Tools 
• Process Mining 
• Allowing for a Deeper Understanding
• Hands-on: Making sense of distributed tracing data

The Journey to Introduce Process Automation  

• Anti-patterns
• Bottom-up Versus Top-down Adoption
• From Project to Program: Scaling Adoption 
• Establishing a Center of Excellence 
• Roles and Skill Development