[bhawks]

> with long history of maintenance and improvement,

That is a huge load bearing statement.

Do you plan on any contributions back to the community yourself?

Build vs. buy is always an important conversation but claiming that the 'buy'-side path has perfectly 0 maintenance and reliability costs reeks of naivety.

[slt2021]

If I needed container orchestration I would use k8s. I can improve it and even propose patches/bugs or chip into opensource maintainers fund. I wont write my own orchestrator, especialy being in a streaming business.

Thats what I meant, doesnt even necessarily Build-vs-Buy, but rather Use-Open-Source-and-Contribute or Reinvent-the-wheel-for-L6-promo-and-then-opensource ??

Would the world be better with 10 workflow orchestrator systems or one mature?

[bhawks]

Netflix is building a workflow orchestrator not a container orchestrator. The viable alternative would be Airflow or maybe something like Temporal. K8s alone isn't going to meet the need in this case.

Does the world need another workflow orchestrator? Who knows - some folks at Netflix seem willing to pay a handful of engineers $ to do so. Good luck to them