Top Eight Questions about Camunda Platform 8

Camunda Community Podcast

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 advantages of remote engines over embedded ones?
See also Bernd's blog post on this topic "Moving from Embedded to Remote Workflow Engines"
2.We know remote engines come with some limitations: We don’t have delegates, for instance. What strategies are recommended for overcoming them:

• What to do instead of listeners?
• How to replicate the functionality we had with Global listeners and engine plugins?

3. For Camunda 8 SaaS, web modeler is used to deploy processes, but for self hosted, what is the best strategy for DevOps and project management? And are there plans to have web modeler for self-hosted?

4. Camunda 8 has 3 APIs in different technologies: gRPC, GraphQL and REST. Each is responsible for part of the functionality that was provided by the REST API on 7.

Can you clarify the differences in scope of each of them?
5. What are the best alternatives for someone who wants to implement their own tasklist?

6. Why do I get RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED errors when I add workers / increase the maxJobsActive setting?

7. Why the change in licensing between Camunda 7 and Camunda 8, and what is it?
Here is Bernd's blog post "How Open is Camunda Platform 8?"
8. Implementing a cloud native application requires new roles and new capabilities w

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