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by geomagilles 2956 days ago
There is no obvious solution right now. That's why we are building Zenaton (I'm cofounder). It's in closed beta by now, but you can have a look at the documentation (https://zenaton.com/documentation) and also read some use cases (https://medium.com/zenaton). Zenaton provides a very simple way (in your own programming language) to orchestrate background jobs
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dalore 2956 days ago
No obvious solutions? Many enterprise companies have a workflow management product. Adobe has one which it makes quite a bit of enterprise revenue from.

https://www.adobe.com/uk/marketing-cloud/experience-manager/...

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geomagilles 2956 days ago
Indeed - but I do not think it's related to the question. The question here is: how do I - as a developer - implement a workflow? Still there are numerous BPM solutions, but often overly sophisticated. You have AWS SWF, but complicated to use, Airflow but in Python only, your own implementation using queues, database, etc... Look at the diversity of answers: there is no obvious answer right now.
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tedmiston 2956 days ago
Airflow can run tasks written in languages besides Python in several ways, such as through the BashOperator, DockerOperator, dispatching a job to a Spark cluster, etc. It's common to use multiple languages.

It's really just the configuration for tasks, DAGs, etc that must be done in Python. I know some people have even automating that to pull from yaml or json instead, but I prefer to have the flexibility myself.

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superzamp 2956 days ago
From what I see on your website it seems your product indeed has found a sweet spot between business-heavy and deep-tech systems.

The only concern I have is having such a critical part of my application running in a proprietary SaaS environment. Do you have plans to consider on-premise licensing or having an open-source community codebase with enterprise plans?

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geomagilles 2955 days ago
Thx. I totally understand your concerns. We work hard to make developer life much more easy. That's also why the solution is hosted. So you do not have to install, maintain, scale your own system. Just to clarify (if needed): your tasks are executed on your servers, we handle only the orchestration itself. Pricing is a work in progress, but we will probably offer a large free usage.
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