"Workflows, a new abstraction for distributed systems" by Dominik Tornow (Strange Loop 2022)

Video Description

For the past 45 years, the database systems community has enjoyed an unparalleled developer experience: Database Transactions mitigate challenges such as failure on a platform level, entirely eliminating these challenges on an applications level. Unfortunately, the distributed systems community has not enjoyed a similar developer experience: There was no equivalent abstraction that mitigates challenges like failure on a platform level. However, many companies, including Snap, Uber, and Netflix, are adopting a new paradigm: Workflows. Workflows are to distributed systems what transactions are to databases. This talk explores how Workflow Systems mitigate challenges on a platform level and provide a developer experience for distributed systems that rivals the developer experience for databases, allowing you to literally code as if failure does not even exist! Dominik Tornow Temporal, Principal Engineer @DominikTornow Dominik Tornow is a Principal Engineer at Temporal. He focuses on systems modeling, specifically conceptual and formal modeling, to support the design and documentation of complex software systems. ------ Sponsored by: ------ Stream is the # 1 Chat API for custom messaging apps. Activate your free 30-day trial to explore Stream Chat. https://gstrm.io/tsl