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)The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, the CDP for developers. Each week we’ll talk to data engineers, analysts, and data scientists about their experience around building and maintaining data infrastructure, delivering data and data products, and driving better outcomes across their businesses with data.RudderStack helps businesses make the most out of their customer data while ensuring data privacy and security. To learn more about RudderStack visit rudderstack.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.