Netflix today Announce Which stopped its support conductora popular orchestration engine for streaming giant microservices Open source In 2016. With more than 13,000 GitHub stars and thousands of companies using it as a core part of their infrastructure, Conductor is one of the company’s most popular open source projects, but now the company has decided to put its efforts elsewhere.
“This strategic decision, while difficult, is necessary to realign our resources to better serve our business objectives through our internal connectors,” the company wrote in a statement. “We are extremely grateful for your support and contributions over the years. Although Netflix will no longer maintain this repo, members of the Conductor community have been active in promoting alternative forks of this project, so we are confident that the health of the community will remain strong moving forward.”
One of those companies is Oryx, a startup founded by the engineers who originally created the Conductor project while at Netflix. Orkes plans to acquire ownership of the project with New fork.
The team plans to maintain a close relationship with the rest of the Mosul community. “We are excited to work in partnership with the broader community to ensure Conductor continues to thrive and this new chapter for Conductor OSS reflects the collective vision of this thriving community,” Orkes wrote in its announcement. “This is not just a continuation of an existing project; It is also an acceleration of innovation with the interests of society at its core.
In fact, the company puts a very positive outlook on this news and also notes that “the roadmap for Conductor will now be powerfully informed by those who use and love it: the open source community.”
Recently, Orix Launched artificial intelligence coordination platform. This makes it easier for developers to add language models and machine learning inference to their workflow by leveraging Orkes’ pre-built integrations with services like Azure Open AI, OpenAI, and Google’s Vertex AI. In coordination with AI Orchestration, the company also launched Human Task, which adds a human element to AI workflow by facilitating the combination of AI-based decision-making and human oversight at critical stages in business processes.