Technical concepts

This section gives an overview of Zeebe's underlying technical concepts.

• Architecture - Introduces you to the internal pillars of Zeebe, as well as interfaces for external systems to interact with Zeebe.
• Clustering - Discusses the internal structure and properties of a Zeebe cluster.
• Partitions - Sheds light on how Zeebe achieves horizontal scalability.
• Internal processing - Explains the basics of Zeebe's event processing.
• Process lifecycles - Expands on the event processing concept and goes into more detail regarding the lifecycles of selected process elements.
• Protocols - Explains how external clients communicate with Zeebe.

In addition to these sections, you may also be interested in our Best Practices.