89: Solving Microservice Orchestration Issues at Netflix with Viren Baraiya of Orkes

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

• Viren’s background and career journey (2:23)
• Engineering challenges in Netflix transitions (6:05)
• How Conductor changed the process (9:30)
• Building a lot more microservices (16:04)
• Open sourcing Conductor (17:38)
• Defining “orchestration” (22:05)
• Using an orchestrator written in Java (31:04)
• Building a cloud service around microservices (34:59)
• Differentiating product experiences (37:17)
• Orchestration platforms in new environments (42:15)
• Advice for those early on in their career (46:10)

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