Camunda 8 Kafka Integration – How It Works
Integrating Camunda 8 with Apache Kafka enables powerful event-driven workflow orchestration. Camunda 8 manages long-running business processes, while Kafka handles high-throughput event streaming between distributed services. Together, they form a scalable and decoupled microservices architecture. In this guide, we will cover: Why Kafka integration is important Integration patterns Implementation approaches Error handling strategies Production best practices 1️⃣ Why Integrate Camunda 8 with Kafka? Camunda 8 is designed as an asynchronous, distributed workflow engine using Zeebe. Kafka naturally complements this architecture. Benefits: ✅ Decoupled services ✅ High scalability ✅ Event-driven orchestration ✅ Resilience and durability ✅ Replay capability Typical use cases: Order created event triggers workflow Payment completed event updates process Inventory updated event continues fulfillment Microservices publish business events 2️⃣ ...