Camunda 8 Zeebe Broker Explained for Beginners
A Simple Guide to How Camunda 8 Really Works Introduction If you are new to Camunda 8 , one term appears everywhere: ❓ Zeebe Broker But what exactly is it? Is it a database? Is it a message broker? Is it the workflow engine? 👉 The short answer: Zeebe Broker is the heart of Camunda 8. In this blog, we explain: What Zeebe Broker is Why it exists How it works internally How it executes BPMN How it scales What beginners must know to use it safely What Is the Zeebe Broker? The Zeebe Broker is the distributed workflow engine behind Camunda 8. It is responsible for: Executing BPMN workflows Persisting workflow state Handling messages & jobs Distributing work across nodes Guaranteeing fault tolerance Unlike Camunda 7, Zeebe is: Event-driven Log-based Clustered by design 👉 Think of Zeebe as a workflow state machine built on a distributed log . Zeebe Is NOT a Traditional Database or Queue Many beginners misunderstand Zeebe. ❌ What Zeebe is NOT ❌ Not a relational database ❌ Not Kafka ❌ N...