Contributor   /     No PhD Required: Restate with Stephan Ewan

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Stephan Ewen (@StephanEwen) is the co-founder of Restate, the open-source workflow-as-code engine. Restate is lightweight, simple, and provides durable execution. Before Restate, Stephan co-created Apache Flink, the open-source stream processing framework. Lessons learned from Flink have heavily influenced the development of Restate, although Stephan says they have exact opposite use cases. Contributor is looking for a community manager! If you want to know more, shoot us an email at eric@scalevp.com. Subscribe to Contributor on Substack for email notifications! In this episode we discuss: The history of Flink and the impact of the 2016 U.S. election Why tooling for real-time transactional problems has historically had room for improvement What constitutes “modern” workflow engines Can you use Restate for any use case? Moving from a large company to a small startup as an open-source developer Links: Restate Apache Flink People mentioned: Kostas Tzoumas (@kostas_tzoumas) Other episodes: Temporal with Maxim Fateev

Summary

Stephan Ewen (@StephanEwen) is the co-founder of Restate, the open-source workflow-as-code engine. Restate is lightweight, simple, and provides durable execution. Before Restate, Stephan co-created Apache Flink, the open-source stream processing framework. Lessons learned from Flink have heavily influenced the development of Restate, although Stephan says they have exact opposite use cases.

Contributor is looking for a community manager! If you want to know more, shoot us an email at eric@scalevp.com.

Subscribe to Contributor on Substack for email notifications!

In this episode we discuss:

  • The history of Flink and the impact of the 2016 U.S. election

  • Why tooling for real-time transactional problems has historically had room for improvement

  • What constitutes “modern” workflow engines

  • Can you use Restate for any use case?

  • Moving from a large company to a small startup as an open-source developer

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People mentioned:

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Duration
32:34
Publishing date
2024-09-25 02:00
Link
https://www.contributor.fyi/restate
Contributors
  Eric Anderson
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https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/657ccb75-c55f-4363-8892-f45dd46caf80/6b9d7432-1ffa-4b51-9a3f-8a3c622c344f.mp3
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Stephan Ewen (@StephanEwen) is the co-founder of Restate, the open-source workflow-as-code engine. Restate is lightweight, simple, and provides durable execution. Before Restate, Stephan co-created Apache Flink, the open-source stream processing framework. Lessons learned from Flink have heavily influenced the development of Restate, although Stephan says they have exact opposite use cases.

Contributor is looking for a community manager! If you want to know more, shoot us an email at eric@scalevp.com.

Subscribe to Contributor on Substack for email notifications!

In this episode we discuss:

  • The history of Flink and the impact of the 2016 U.S. election

  • Why tooling for real-time transactional problems has historically had room for improvement

  • What constitutes “modern” workflow engines

  • Can you use Restate for any use case?

  • Moving from a large company to a small startup as an open-source developer

Links:

People mentioned:

Other episodes: