What is Zeebe?
It is a workflow engine for microservices orchestration. It ensures that, once started, flows are always carried out fully, retrying steps in case of failures. Along the way, it maintains a complete audit log so that the progress of flows can be monitored. It is fault tolerant and scales seamlessly to handle growing transaction volumes.
Zeebe is a tool in the Microservices Tools category of a tech stack.
Zeebe is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Zeebe's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Zeebe?
Developers
9 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Zeebe.
Zeebe Integrations
Zeebe's Features
- Define Workflows Graphically
- Choose Your Programming Language
- Deploy To Kubernetes
- Build Message-Driven Workflows
- Scale Up To (Very) High Throughput
- Export and Analyze Workflow Data
- Fault Tolerance (No Database Required)
Zeebe Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Zeebe?
Istio
Istio is an open platform for providing a uniform way to integrate microservices, manage traffic flow across microservices, enforce policies and aggregate telemetry data. Istio's control plane provides an abstraction layer over the underlying cluster management platform, such as Kubernetes, Mesos, etc.
Zuul
It is the front door for all requests from devices and websites to the backend of the Netflix streaming application. As an edge service application, It is built to enable dynamic routing, monitoring, resiliency, and security. Routing is an integral part of a microservice architecture.
Jersey
It is open source, production quality, framework for developing RESTful Web Services in Java that provides support for JAX-RS APIs and serves as a JAX-RS (JSR 311 & JSR 339) Reference Implementation. It provides it’s own API that extend the JAX-RS toolkit with additional features and utilities to further simplify RESTful service and client development.
linkerd
linkerd is an out-of-process network stack for microservices. It functions as a transparent RPC proxy, handling everything needed to make inter-service RPC safe and sane--including load-balancing, service discovery, instrumentation, and routing.
Azure Service Fabric
Azure Service Fabric is a distributed systems platform that makes it easy to package, deploy, and manage scalable and reliable microservices. Service Fabric addresses the significant challenges in developing and managing cloud apps.
