Hi everyone! Yesterday we did a workshop at @JBCNConf about using Spring Cloud, Spring Cloud Kubernetes, Jenkins X and Activiti Cloud. It was the first time that we did a full 2hs session to deploying a set of services which implement the Activiti Cloud BluePrint. Notice that this was not a simple " Read more...

Last week we made some huge progress on the new Java Runtime APIs and refinements in our building blocks to make sure that applications can be built without the need of heavy customization and tuning. The Trending Topics Blueprint is being simplified and cleaned up to make sure we reduce the clutter Read more...

Last week we merged into our Incubator repositorythe first and initial version of our standalone Task Service created by @MiguelRuizDev. Miguel is working on in this service while he is doing his internship here @Alfresco. We will iterate this service until we can merge it back and make it one of ou Read more...

Last week we spend a lot of time refining examples and upgrading our infrastructure to leverage kubernetes services by using Spring Cloud Kubernetes projects. We started working on upgrading the BluePrint: Trending Topic campaigns in order to use the new set of dependencies and improve the Applicati Read more...

We (@daisuke_yoshimoand myself) presented our lessons learned about Spring Cloud, Docker and Kubernetes while designing, implementing and testing Activiti Cloud. <pictures coming soon>Here are the slides and the source code repositories to run the demo that we showed during the presentation wh Read more...

Hi everyone, as part of the Activiti Cloudproject we have been testing our Cloud Native building blocks extensively into Kubernetes clusters. We started by using MiniKubeand that worked well for some time, but now we are moving to real clusters to do our development, testing and continuous deploymen Read more...

We are happy to announce the new website (www.activiti.org) for Activiti is now live.This new version has an updated look and feel that reflects our new cloud native approach to Business Automation. It is now hosted on GitHub so we can iteratively improve it following an open community approach! The Read more...

Last week we worked hard into moving forward our services and making sure that they can be deployed into an AWS Kubernetes Cluster and also a GCE Kubernetes Cluster. This will enable us to validate our examples and blueprints in a more consistent way release after release. We are looking into pluggi Read more...

  Hey there, on this blog post I wanted to touch base on using Activiti Cloud with Jenkins X. As mentioned in previous blog posts we wanted to make sure that Activiti Cloud provides the right tools for you to build, deploy and scale new Activiti Cloud Applications following standard practices around Read more...

Last week we kept pushing to get our initial version of the Applications Service into our Activiti Cloud Example. We currently have a new repository containing the core logic for this serviceand we are looking forward to test the initial version along with the other components this week. We are also Read more...

I had a great time in Krakow, Poland at GeeCon 18' the 10th edition of this highly recognised conference focused in Java. In general the conference was amazing, excellent venue, great weather, beautiful city great talks and an amazing Java Community. You cannot ask for anything else.  SlidesMy prese Read more...

Last week we focused in closing Pull Request that were waiting for review and pushed the next iteration of the Process & Task Runtime APIs plus the Application Service integration with other components in the infrastructure. We also did a spike to build our Blueprint using JenkinsX in AWS, which Read more...

After #44 weeks of heavy work we are getting closer and closer to our first Beta1release. We are actively working in getting the first iteration of our building blocks in shape to cover a set of common scenarios for cloud deployments. After Beta1we will be focused in making sure that these component Read more...

Last week we worked to make further refinements in our core services. Events emitted by our services now include the Activiti Cloud Application Name, Service Type and version. Our new Runtime APIs are now covering Event Listeners and Connectors and we are getting close to start moving these initiati Read more...

Last week we worked hard to move forward Application Services, new Runtime APIs and aligning our services and configurations to map these changes. This week we will push forward to make sure that we start having examples using these new services and APis. Feel free to join our RFC documents and add Read more...

The main goal of this document is to create a proposal for a new set of Process & Task Runtime oriented APIs. This APIs will be provided as separate maven modules from the activiti-engine module, where the interfaces defined in the APIs will be implemented. The main purpose for this new API is t Read more...

Last week we worked hard into getting the Activiti Cloud Application Service abstraction layer and our Proposal for a new set of Process & Task Runtime APIs into our Incubator Github Repository: https://github.com/activiti/incubator. This week we will push forward to get the Application Service Read more...

When you build distributed architectures (with containers involved), applications end up being a set of logically related microservices that you run on top an infrastructure. This infrastructure will allow you to set up isolated environments where you should be able to control resource allocation an Read more...

Last week we had some very good progress on our main topics that we want to cover before doing Beta1. Application Service and the new Process Runtime Java APIs are moving forward at very nice pace. There is a lot of work to do around these two areas, so we want to be focused in getting the first ite Read more...

Last week I had the pleasure to attend Alfresco Day in New York City. It was a great chance to meet customers and partners creating all sorts of implementations with Activiti. We are quite excited to see their enthusiasm around our new Cloud Native approach in Activiti Cloud. The team is making sign Read more...

Last week we manage to finally release to Maven Central and Docker Hub our Early Access Release 201802-EAartifacts. You can read more about this release and our updated Roadmap plans here. As stated in our Roadmap update we will now focus on getting things ready for a Beta1release which is intended Read more...

Another Early Access Release (201802-EA) was pushed to Maven Central and our Docker Containers were tagged accordingly. You are encouraged to use these new Early Release artifacts to test inside your services, provide feedback and report issues. We are now heavily relying on our Acceptance Tests sui Read more...

I’m happy to announce that Activiti & Activiti Cloud 7-201802-EA artifacts are out. We encourage our community members to try them out and provide feedback.This release was focused on refining our services endpoints and how we deal with dependencies across all our repositories.You can take a loo Read more...

Last week we manage to merge two important PRs related to Query Service Security and our unification following the Alfresco API Guidelines. These two PRs are making sure that our services are unified across the whole Alfresco Digital Business Platform initiative, while we provide HAL endpoints for u Read more...

Here you have a quick intro to Activiti Cloud. On this presentation I covered the main building blocks in Activiti Cloud and the main reasons why we are going all in Kubernetes. It is a really short presentation and I'm quite rusty with my presentation skills, but the better the software gets the ea Read more...

Last week we spend most our energies in finalizing pending issues from February milestone. We are quite close to finish these issues and to proceed with the release almost 12 days after the deadline. We prioritized heavy changes in our POM structures which as usual introduced delays and impact how t Read more...

Last week (Wednesday), the Activiti team presented at the London Microservices Meetup. We did 3 sessions: 2 lighting talks and one full session. All the content was all about our Journey from being a simple Java Framework to a set of Cloud Native building blocks. This big change in architecture and Read more...

Last week we spend a lot of time working and reshaping our maven structure to improve how dependencies are managed across our repositories. This is our third iteration around this topic and it is always painful but it is getting better. @mteodorialso introduced a new repository called “activiti-scri Read more...

We’re pleased to share with you an interview with Ryan Dawson, Activiti Core Developer, and Raphael Allegre, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Alfresco. Here, they talk about  how the BPM and software development industry is moving ahead as well as  how Alfresco is innovating in this space through Read more...

The Activiti OSS team will be presenting 2 lighting talks and a full session on the technology stacks that we are using to build Activiti Cloud. The agenda for the evening will be:Kubernetes for Java Developers (lighting talk)Spring Cloud Kubernetes (lighting talk)Lessons learned in Spring Cloud, Do Read more...