Welcome back to the latest in our regular Cadence community spotlight updates where we aim to deliver you news from in and around the Cadence community! It’s been a few months since our last update, so I have a bunch of exciting updates to share.

Let’s get started!

Proposal for Cadence Plugin System​

Community member Mantas Sidlauskas drafted a thorough proposal around putting together a plugin system in Cadence. Aimed at enhancing the flexibility of integrating various components like storage, document search, and archival, this system encourages the use of external plugins, promoting innovation and reducing dependency complications. Your insights and feedback are crucial; learn more and contribute your thoughts at the link below:

• Cadence Plugin System Proposal

A huge thank you to Mantas for initiating this work. This is an excellent example of how we can collaborate together to bring about new features that benefit us all.

Here’s the latest in our regular monthly Community Spotlight updates that gives you news from in and around the Cadence community!

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Community Survey​

We've been talking about doing a community survey for a while and during February we sent it out. We are still collating the results so it's not too late to send in your response.

The survey takes 5 minutes and is your opportunity to provide feedback to the project and highlight areas you think we need to focus on.

Use this Survey Link

Please take a few minutes to give us your opinion.

Happy New Year everyone! Here’s the latest in our regular monthly Community Spotlight updates that gives you news from in and around the Cadence community!

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Closing Down Cadence Office Hours​

We have been running Office Hours sessions every month since May last year. The aim was to give the community an opportunity to speak directly with some of the Cadence core developers and experts to answer questions on particular issues you may be having. We have found that the most preferred method for community questions has been the support Slack channel so have decided to stop this monthly call.

Thanks very much to Ender Demirkayaand the Uber team for making themselves available for these sessions.

Please remember that if you have question about Cadence or are facing a specific issue then you can post your question in our #support Slack channel. If you also post the details on StackOverflow with the cadence workflow tag then there will be a searchable history for others who encounter the same issue to find a solution.

I know we are a little early this month as many people will be taking some time out for holidays.

Happy Holidays​

We'd like to wish everyone happy holidays and to thank you for being part of the Cadence community. It's been a busy year for Cadence as we have continued to build a strong, active community that works together to solve issues and generally support each other.

Let's keep going!...This is a great way to build a sustainable community.

We are sure that 2023 will be even more exciting as we continue to develop Cadence.

Cadence in the News!​

Below are a selection of Cadence related articles, blogs and whitepapers. Please take a look and feel free to share via your own social media channels.

• Cadence iWF

• Child Workflow Cookbook

• Cadence Connection Examples Using TLS

Here’s the latest in our regular monthly Community Spotlight updates that gives you news from in and around the Cadence community!

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Cadence @ Uber​

This month Uber Engineering published a really nice article on one of the ways they are using Cadence. The article is called How Uber Optimizes the Timing of Push Notifications using ML and Linear Programming.

The Uber team take you through the details of the problem that they are looking to solve, so you can understand the scope limitations and depedencies - so please take a look.

Cadence @ DeveloperWeek Enterprise​

DevNetwork run a series of conferences and during November Cadence was featured in at DeveloperWeek Enterprise. Ender Demirkaya and Ben Slater presented a talk called Espress Complex Business Logic as Code with Open Source Cadence!.

It is good to see that we are finding new channels for us to present the benefits of using Cadence. Huge hanks to Ben and Ender for the presentation and to everyone that attended.

Here’s the latest in our regular monthly Community Spotlight updates that gives you news from in and around the Cadence community!

Please see below for a roundup of the highlights:

Cadence Meetup Postponed​

It's always great to get the community together and we had planned to run another Cadence Meetup in early November. Unfortunately we didn't have enough time to get things organised so we've decided to postpone it. So please watch out for an announcement for the new Cadence meetup date.

Doordash Technnical Showcase Featuring Cadence​

We have had some great feedback from people who attended Technical Showcase that was run this month by Doordash. It featured their financial products but also highlighted some of the key technologies they use...and guess what Cadence is one of them!

If you missed the session then you will be happy to know that it was recorded and we've inlcuded a link to the the recording on Youtube.

Thanks to the Doordash team for running the session and helping support Cadence by sharing their knowledge.

Here’s the latest in our regular monthly Community Spotlight updates that gives you news from in and around the Cadence community!

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A Cadence talk by Ender Demirkaya and Ben Slater has been accepted for Developer Week Enterprise.

The talk is scheduled to for 16th November so please make a note in your calendars.

Sharing Knowledge

Over the last few months we have had a continual stream of Cadence questions in our Slack #support channel or on StackOverflow. As a result of the increased interest some members from the Cadence core team have decided to spend some time each day responding to your questions.

Remember that if you have received a response that has solved your problem especially on StackOverflow then please don't forget to accept answer!

Here’s the latest in our regular monthly Community Spotlight updates that gives you news from in and around the Cadence community!

Please see below for a roundup of the highlights:

Community Survey​

We are working on putting together our first community survey to find out a bit more about our community. We would like to get your feedback about on a few things such as:

• how you are using Cadence
• any specific experiences you have had where you'd like to see new features
• any special use cases not yet covered
• and of course whatever other feedback you'd like to give us

So please watch out for the survey which will be coming out to you via the Slack channel soon!

Here’s our monthly Community Spotlight update that gives you news from in and around the Cadence community!

Please see below for a roundup of the highlights:

Flying Drones with Cadence​

Community member Paul Brebner has released another blog in the series of using Cadence to manage a drone delivery service. You can see a simulated view of it in action

Don’t forget to try out the code yourself and remember if you have used Cadence to do something interesting then please let us know so we can feature it in our next update.

GitHub Statistics​

During July the main Cadence branch had 28 pull requests (PRs) merged. There were 214 files changed by 11 different authors. You can find more details here

The Cadence documentation repository was not as busy with only 2 PRs merged in July, 5 commits and 3 authors active. More details can be found here

It’s time for our monthly Cadence Community Spotlight update with news from in and around the Cadence community!

Please see below for a roundup of the highlights:

Knowledge Sharing and Support​

Our Slack #support channel has been busy this month with 13 questions asked this month by 12 different community members. Six community members took time to respond to those questions which clearly shows our community is growing, collaborating and keen to share knowledge.

Please don’t forget that we encourage everyone to post questions on StackOverflow using the cadence-workflow and uber-cadence tags so that others with similar questions or issues can easily search for and find an answer.

Improving Technical Office Hours​

Over the last few months we have been holding regular monthly Office Hours meetings but they have not attracted as many participants as we would like. We would like to understand if there is something preventing people from attending (e.g perhaps the timing or dates are not convenient) so we are planning to send out a short community survey.

If you have any ideas or comments about how we can improve our community office hours sessions then please include this in your feedback or contact us in the #community Slack channel.