Conductor, the Universal Business Process Orchestrator: Features and Extensibility
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Talk presents lessons from five years using Netflix Conductor for orchestrating business processes, including three years in production facing operational challenges, bugs, and user feedback. It compares orchestrators (workflow engines vs BPMN), discusses pros and cons of Conductor and whether the community edition is production-ready, and explains how to write custom modules, with code examples.
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chapters (24)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:52Talk topic
- 3:35Process orchestrators overview
- 4:15Camunda vs Temporal
- 6:45Conductor introduction
- 7:50Conductor popularity
- 11:02Architecture and entities
- 15:49Workflow Definition versions
- 17:37Task types and parameters
- 19:04Task Definition workers
- 21:10Event Handler integrations
- 22:55Conductor UI demo
- 26:01Process analysis and debugging
- 27:49Visualization and timestamps
- 29:56Code-based workflows
- 31:46Drawbacks and improvements
- 33:13Limitations and performance
- 34:42Extending functionality
- 36:32Monitoring and metrics
- 37:55JavaScript transformations
- 39:20Optimization settings
- 40:47Conductor pros and cons
- 42:09Try Conductor
- 42:30Q&A
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