No PhD Required: Restate with Stephan Ewan


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Sep 25 2024 32 mins   1

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





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