What does HackerNews think of cadence?

Cadence is a distributed, scalable, durable, and highly available orchestration engine to execute asynchronous long-running business logic in a scalable and resilient way.

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Why messaging is much better than REST for inter-microservice communications | Feb 2023
Having done a reasonable amount of messaging code in my time, I would say the final form of this sort of thing might look more like Cadence[0] than anything like this.

[0] https://github.com/uber/cadence

Netflix Conductor: Open-source workflow orchestration engine | Aug 2020
Workflows and orchestration are my jam -- that's what we're trying to simplify over at https://refinery.io

Conductor is a cool piece of tech, and it's a well-established player in a rapidly growing space for workflow engines.

I used to work at Uber and that company had microservice-hell for a while. They built the project Cadence[0] to alleviate that. It is similar to Conductor in many ways.

One project to watch out for is Argo[1] which is a CNCF-backed project.

There are also some attempts[2] to standardize the workflow spec.

Serverless adds a whole new can of worms to what orchestration engines have to manage, and I'm very curious to see how things evolve in the future. Kubernetes adds a whole dimension of complexity to the problem space, as well.

If anybody is interested in chatting about microservice hell or complex state machines for business logic, I'd be excited to chat. I'm always looking for more real world problems to help solve (as an early stage startup founder) and more exposure to what others are struggling with is helpful!

0: https://github.com/uber/cadence

1: https://argoproj.github.io/argo/

2: https://serverlessworkflow.github.io/

Netflix Conductor: An Open Source Workflow Orchestration Engine | Aug 2020
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So is it like https://github.com/uber/cadence, AWS SWF, Amazon Step Functions?
Introduction to Apache Airflow | May 2020
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I think this is the link to cadence: https://github.com/uber/cadence

and temporal: https://github.com/temporalio/temporal
Why Monzo's bank transfers weren't working on the 30th of May | Jun 2019
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actually I kind of like this one - https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2018...

We have learnt a lot from you guys as we build out similar systems in India. Thank you for putting this stuff out!

Quick question that I have always wondered about - would you have used something like Uber Cadence (https://github.com/uber/cadence) as the core of your infrastructure if it had been available back thhen ?
Ask HN: How do you handle long-running workflows at your company? | May 2018
Uber wrote its own framework: https://github.com/uber/cadence
Distributed architecture concepts I learned when building a large payment system | Apr 2018
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Some parts of the Money system does use Cadence [1], Uber's internal workflow framework.

[1] https://github.com/uber/cadence
Distributed architecture concepts I learned when building a large payment system | Apr 2018
Uber recently open sourced Cadence, which is similar to AWS SWF [1] and built by the same principal engineer. A good overview was presented at Data @ Scale [2] if you're interested. Under the covers, it manages a set of queues for you and lets you write procedural business logic in a resilient way as an implicit workflow.

[1] https://github.com/uber/cadence [2] https://atscaleconference.com/videos/cadence-microservice-ar...