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cadence
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cadence-workflow / cadence

cadence

Cadence is a distributed, scalable, durable, and highly available orchestration engine to execute asynchronous long-running business logic in a scalable and resilient way.

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11Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
9.6KGitHub stars
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Cadence is a distributed, scalable, durable, and highly available orchestration engine to execute asynchronous long-running business logic in a scalable and resilient way.

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year11 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2018-04-17 15:19:40 UTC to 2024-07-23 18:26:38 UTC.

01232018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024

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20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Uber | Software Engineers | Hybrid (Denmark) | https://www.uber.com/dk/en/careers/locations/aarhus/ Work with an amazing team responsible for the infrastructure software that makes Uber’s data centers around the world reliable and scalable. If you want to solve the toughest engineering challenges alongside some of the smartest people in the industry, Uber Aarhus is the right place for you. The team in Aarhus build and operate the stateless and stateful compute platforms used by nearly every other engineer in the company (Up - https://www.uber.com/en-GB/blog/up-portable-microservices-re... and Odin - https://www.uber.com/en-GB/blog/how-uber-optimized-cassandra...) as well as other related infrastructure projects such as Cadence - https://github.com/uber/cadence.
In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2023)
Workflows and orchestration are my jam -- that's what we're trying to simplify over at https://refinery.io Conductor is a cool piece of tech, and it's a well-established player in a rapidly growing space for workflow engines. I used to work at Uber and that company had microservice-hell for a while. They built the project Cadence[0] to alleviate that. It is similar to Conductor in many ways. One project to watch out for is Argo[1] which is a CNCF-backed project. There are also some attempts[2] to standardize the workflow spec. Serverless adds a whole new can of worms to what orchestration engines have to manage, and I'm very curious to see how things evolve in the future. Kubernetes adds a whole dimension of complexity to the problem space, as well. If anybody is interested in chatting about microservice hell or complex state machines for
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business logic, I'd be excited to chat. I'm always looking for more real world problems to help solve (as an early stage startup founder) and more exposure to what others are struggling with is helpful! 0: https://github.com/uber/cadence 1: https://argoproj.github.io/argo/ 2: https://serverlessworkflow.github.io/
In Netflix Conductor: Open-source workflow orchestration engine
actually I kind of like this one - https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2018... We have learnt a lot from you guys as we build out similar systems in India. Thank you for putting this stuff out! Quick question that I have always wondered about - would you have used something like Uber Cadence (https://github.com/uber/cadence) as the core of your infrastructure if it had been available back thhen ?
In Why Monzo's bank transfers weren't working on the 30th of May
Uber recently open sourced Cadence, which is similar to AWS SWF [1] and built by the same principal engineer. A good overview was presented at Data @ Scale [2] if you're interested. Under the covers, it manages a set of queues for you and lets you write procedural business logic in a resilient way as an implicit workflow. [1] https://github.com/uber/cadence [2] https://atscaleconference.com/videos/cadence-microservice-ar...
In Distributed architecture concepts I learned when building a large payment system

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