We released a user survey earlier this year to learn about who our users are, how they use Cadence, and how we can help them. It was shared from our Slack workspace, cadenceworkflow.io Blog and LinkedIn. After collecting the feedback, we wanted to share the results with our community. Thank you everyone for filling it out! Your feedback is invaluable and it helps us shape our roadmap for the future.

Here are some highlights in text and you can check out the visuals to get more details:

Most of the people who replied to our survey were engineers who were already using Cadence, actively evaluating, or migrating from a similar technology. This was exciting to hear! Some of you have contacted us to learn more about benchmarks, scale, and ideal use cases. We will share more guidelines about this but until then, feel free to contact us over our Slack workspace for guidance.

Welcome to the latest of our regular monthly Community Spotlight updates that gives you news from in and around the Cadence community!

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Cadence at Open Source Summit, North America​

We are very pleased to let you know that a talk on Cadence has been accepted for the Linux Foundation's Open Source Summit, North America in Vancouver on 10th - 12th May 2023.

The talk called Cadence: The New Open Source Project for Building Complex Distributed Applications will be given by Ender Demirkaya and Emrah Seker If you are planning to attend the Open Source Summit then please don't forget to attend the talk and take time catch up with Ender and Emrah!

Community Activity​

Our Slack #support channel has been very active over the last few months as we continue to get a continual stream of questions. Here are the stats:

• February 2023 : 16 questions asked
• March 2023 : 12 questions asked

All of these questions are being answered collaboratively by the community. Thanks everyone for sharing your knowledge and we are looking forward to receiving more of your questions!

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'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 dependencies - 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 Express 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 thanks 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 Technical 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 included a link to 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 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