DeveloperWeek 2023

Viren Baraiya, CTO, Orkes

Description
Microservices adoption has gone mainstream beyond the tech giants. They have become even more relevant as the companies take on the cloud journey and start to break down their monolithic architecture into microservices. This transformation spans both business processes and data processing pipelines. Of course, instead of one big monolith application that can fail, you now have dozens of smaller applications, each with its own failure surface area.

In this talk, we will present strategies to build resilient, distributed stateful applications in a hybrid cloud environment at scales that companies like Netflix and many other businesses operate. During the session, we will also provide an overview of the popular open source Netflix Conductor microservices & workflow orchestration platform. This includes diving deep into the architecture of Conductor and how it allows you to seamlessly handle common challenges around failures, rate limits and scaling.

In summary, you will learn how to build high performing stateful systems spanning decoupled microsystems as easily as building a simple stateless service!

Takeaways
1. Learn how to build complex stateful distributed applications
2. Challenges of operationalizing distributed applications
3. Consistency and distributed applications