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Netflix has open-sourced its Maestro Workflow Orchestrator

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Re: Netflix has open-sourced its Maestro Workflow Orchestrator

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This appears to be the high level architecture: https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:4800/format:webp/0*SDt... . To me seems to overengineered for most of the companies outside there, how many people do you need to manage it?

In the blog, it claims:

> … schedule hundreds of thousands of workflows, millions of jobs every day and operate with a strict SLO of less than 1 minute of scheduler introduced delay even when there are spikes in the traffic.

I wouldn’t necessarily call it over engineered if it can handle this type of workload.

But if you are running a fraction of these workloads with a much more relaxed SLO (service level objection), then yea this is overengineered.

Like any solution from FAANG, or “big tech”. It works for _them_ at scale but for 90% of companies the sheer management of this service will quickly outweigh the benefits.

Re: Netflix has open-sourced its Maestro Workflow Orchestrator

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I was just thinking didn't Netflix already have its own workflow engine: https://github.com/Netflix/conductor , but found out it's archived/EOL so this makes more sense now.

Conductor was moved here: https://github.com/conductor-oss/conductor
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