Zeebe is a high-throughput, horizontally scalable workflow automation system designed for production readiness by the end of 2018. It is open-source and includes a broker execution command API and task management features for efficient workflow execution. The architecture supports scaling and resilience through a leader-follower partitioning model.

1. Zeebe – Workflow
Automation at Scale
Thorben Lindhauer

2. Zeebe is…

3. • Designed for high throughput and horizontal scalability
• Open Source: https://github.com/zeebe-io/zeebe
• Goal: Production-ready by end of 2018

4. The Zeebe Broker

5. execution
Command API Streaming APIZeebe Broker

6. execution
Command API Streaming APIZeebe Broker
Tasklist
Cockpit
Optimize
Pub/SubRequest/Response
Task Worker
Task Worker
Task Worker

7. execution
Command API Streaming APIZeebe Broker
Pub/Sub
Task Worker
Zeebe Client
REST Client
Request/Response
REST API

8. Workflow Execution –
Scaling and Resilience

9. Task Worker
Broker

10. Task Worker
Broker
Task Worker Task Worker

11. Task Worker
Broker
Task Worker Task Worker

12. Task Worker
Broker
Task Worker Task Worker
Broker Broker
Partition 2: LEADER Partition 3: LEADER
Partition 1: LEADER

13. Task Worker
Broker
Task Worker Task Worker
Broker Broker
Partition 1: FOLLOWER
Partition 2: LEADER
Partition 3: FOLLOWER
Partition 1: FOLLOWER
Partition 2: FOLLOWER
Partition 3: LEADER
Partition 1: LEADER
Partition 2: FOLLOWER
Partition 3: FOLLOWER

14. Task Worker
Broker
Task Worker Task Worker
Broker Broker
Partition 1: FOLLOWER
Partition 2: FOLLOWER
Partition 3: LEADER
Partition 1: LEADER
Partition 2: LEADER
Partition 3: FOLLOWER

15. Live hacking

16. zeebe.io
github.com/zeebe-io