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.

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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