"This strategic decision is extremely important for us to reallocate resources to better meet our business goals through our in-house Conductor branch," Netflix said. ”
Translated from Orkes to Maintain Conductor Project as Netflix Steps Back, by Susan Hall, Sponsored Editor of The New Stack. Her job is to help sponsors get the maximum readership for the content they provide. She's been writing for The New Stack since its early days, as well as for other **s**. Orkes is a company that commercializes Conductor, an open-source project developed by Netflix, and will take over the maintenance of the project after Netflix decides to use the Conductor project internally. "The Conductor community's innovation roadmap is highly aligned with the broad needs of the various developers and organizations that make up the community," Orkes said in a statement. This is different from Netflix's main focus on the Conductor roadmap based on company-level goals, which are used for Netflix's own internal use and the expansion of Conductor. Now that Netflix has officially stepped out of the project to focus on its internal Conductor branch, Orkes has pledged to manage the Conductor open source project and its active community. ”
In the midst of Netflix's growth, it developed the workflow orchestration platform and open-sourced it in 2016. Conductor manages the execution, routing, and coordination of tasks in a microservice workflow. With over 13,000 stars on GitHub, it is used by companies such as JPMorgan Chase, Tesla, Oracle, American Express, Cisco, and VMware. "While this is a difficult strategic decision, it is critical to realign our resources to better serve the business objectives of our in-house conductor division," the company wrote in a statement. We are very grateful for your support and contributions over the years. Although Netflix no longer maintains this repository, members of the Conductor community have been pushing for an alternative fork of the project, so we are confident that the health of the community will remain strong in the future. ”
Its founders include Jeu George, Viren Baraiya, and Boney Sekh, as well as Dilip Lukose, who founded Orkes in 2022 in Cupertino, California, USA. It offers a hosted version of Conductor and recently announced its AI orchestration tool to enable workflows to incorporate LLMS and vector embeddings in application development. George said in an interview: "It takes a lot of work to maintain an open source project, so we've been working with Netflix for the past two years to help manage that. "Considering we've been focused on conductor....So it makes sense for us to take all the responsibility and support this project and the community moving forward. ”
Netflix's Conductor public GitHub repository has been archived, and Orkes will manage the fork on a new repository. Anyone using the old repository can now point to the new repository to continue their project. It will also have a new **, George said. In a blog post, the company noted: "Conductor's roadmap will now be firmly driven by those who use and love it: the open source community. We are committed to ensuring that Conductor's future growth aligns with the needs and expectations of you and your community. ”
"There are already more than 1,000 companies using Conductor, and we've started inviting everyone interested in joining the program," George said. "It's going to be a multi-stage process that will involve creating a working group. We've just started to get a lot of positive responses from other companies that they want to be a part of, and we're starting to have some conversations with them as well. We might start with a working group and eventually move towards a meeting. ”