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Building Decentralized Workflows that Scale

Peter Kraft18 minutes

In this Monster Scale Summit Presentation

We usually think of workflows as centralized–there’s a big central orchestrator telling different workers what to do. But what if they could be decentralized instead? It's a simpler architecture, but it's hard to do right--servers need to cooperate to efficiently schedule and execute workflows, but they can’t directly communicate with each other. In this talk, we'll show you how to make decentralized workflows scale.

Peter Kraft, Co-founder, DBOS

Peter Kraft is a co-founder at DBOS, Inc. Previously, he obtained his PhD in computer science from Stanford University, where he worked with Matei Zaharia and Peter Bailis.