Meet Cadence: The Open Source Orchestration Workflow Engine
Summary
Developers are often faced with complexity when building and operating long-running processes that involve multiple service calls and require continuous coordination. To solve this challenge, Uber built and introduced Cadence, the open-source solution for workflow orchestration in 2016 that enables developers to directly express complex, long-running business logic as simple code. In this episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, Ben Slater, chief product officer at Instaclustr and Emrah Seker, staff software engineer at Uber discuss Cadence, and how it is used by developers to solve various business problems by enabling them to focus on writing code for business logic, without worrying about the complexity of distributed systems. Its unique value is that “in a distributed environment, you must account for the network failures, the throttling, rate limiting and observable requirements around where a particular order is in its lifecycle. Ultimately, Cadence becomes valuable when “you got lots of workflow requirements or need to go to the highest levels of scale that it makes it worth the investment,” said Slater.
