Just listened to a great episode of the Stack Overflow podcast featuring Jeu George, Co-founder & CEO of Orkes (yep, our Orkes), former Netflix + Uber architect.
It’s a solid reminder that microservices aren’t just about splitting things up—they’re about putting them back together intelligently. Netflix built Conductor because once they hit hundreds of services, keeping things reliable and connected became a real challenge. Uber faced the same thing.
Some gems from the episode:
- “Microservices need orchestration once things get complex.”
- “Open source is great—but for enterprise scale, managed services matter.”
- “AI agents are becoming a real part of these systems (yep, workflows + agents =
).”
Give it a listen if you’re into distributed systems, or just want to know why Conductor exists in the first place:
Curious to hear your thoughts—anyone else hit that point where orchestration becomes unavoidable?
