OPopiniateddev·Aug 21, 2026
The open source continues to live:
https://github.com/conductor-oss/conductor
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Conductor is an event driven agentic workflow engine providing durable and highly resilient execution engine for applications and AI Agents
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Conductor is an event driven agentic workflow engine providing durable and highly resilient execution engine for applications and AI Agents
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10 sourcesRuntime for agents
https://github.com/agentspan-ai/agentspan
Built on top of Conductor OSS - https://github.com/conductor-oss/conductor
In Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)Conductor, an orchestration engine for microservices and event-driven workflows
1 points · Open discussionConductor MCP Server is now public
Open Source Conductor: https://github.com/conductor-oss/conductor
Enterprise Orkes Conductor: https://orkes.io
And finally, the MCP Server, which is compatible with both open source Conductor and Orkes Enterprise Conductor: https://github.com/conductor-oss/conductor-mcp
If you aren't familiar with Workflow Orchestration, there's an article here:
https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/workflow-orchestration
In brief (and in my own words), workflow orchestration separates the state from the code so they can be managed independently.
Here's a blurb I grabbed about Conductor:
"Conductor is an open-source, Apache 2.0 licensed workflow orchestration framework. You can use Conductor to easily build highly reliable distributed applications using the language of your choice.
Conductor removes the complexities of maintaining and propagating the state of
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the execution while increasing the robustness of the application by natively supporting retries and error handling scenarios. That way you can focus on coding the business logic of your application instead of the complexities of building the distributed ecosystem."
how is it different from Conductor? https://github.com/conductor-oss/conductor
In Running Durable Workflows in Postgres Using DBOSI'm a bit confused about what is going on here: This project appears to use Netflix/conductor [0]. But you go to that repo, you see it has been archived, with a message saying it is replaced by Netflix's internal non-OSS version, and by unmentioned community forks – by which I assume they mean Orkes Conductor [1]. But this isn't using Orkes Conductor, it looks like it is using the discontinued Netflix version `com.netflix.conductor:conductor-core:2.31.5` [2] – and an outdated version of it too.
[0] https://github.com/Netflix/conductor
[1] https://github.com/conductor-oss/conductor
[2] https://github.com/Netflix/maestro/blob/e8bee3f1625d3f31d84d...
In Maestro: Netflix's Workflow OrchestratorConductor was moved here: https://github.com/conductor-oss/conductor
Maestro uses conductor as its core.
https://github.com/Netflix/maestro/blob/main/maestro-engine/...
https://netflixtechblog.com/orchestrating-data-ml-workflows-...
In Maestro: Netflix's Workflow OrchestratorConductor was moved here: https://github.com/conductor-oss/conductor
In Netflix has open-sourced its Maestro Workflow OrchestratorConductor – open-source event driven orchestration platform
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