Introduction to Conductor

What is Conductor?

Conductor is a platform originally developed at Netflix to orchestrate workflows that span across applications or microservices.

• Orchestration Platform for building stateful applications without the overhead of managing a state machine
• Enables development of highly resilient and scalable distributed systems with built-in features that empowers the rapid development of business applications
• Used for a wide range of use cases such as business process automation, data pipelines, CI/CD pipelines, order management workflows, etc.
• Run 100s to millions of workflows per day that scales seamlessly for a wide range of applications
• Conductor is an open-source, Apache 2.0 licensed workflow orchestration framework
• Build workflows using many popular languages with SDKs

Conductor Overview

• With conductor - we create orchestration flows called as Workflows
• The Workflow consists of tasks and operators
• Tasks can be system managed (no-code deployment) or your custom code
• Tasks are managed by persistent task queues transparent to users
• Custom code tasks can be written in any language and can connect to a workflow using the client SDKs
• Tasks can be run like a programming language, i.e., sub workflows, step-by-step, parallel tasks, conditional tasks, dynamic tasks, etc. are supported