Netflix has decided to discontinue support for Conductor, a well-regarded orchestration engine for microservices that they open sourced in 2016. Despite its popularity with over 13,000 GitHub stars and wide adoption, Netflix is redirecting its resources to focus on other business objectives. Orkes, a startup formed by the original Conductor engineers from Netflix, plans to take over the project with a new fork, promising to maintain a close relationship with the Conductor community. They aim to accelerate innovation while emphasizing community involvement in shaping Conductor's future. Orkes recently launched an AI Orchestration platform, simplifying the integration of language models and machine learning inference into workflows, along with Human Task, enhancing AI workflows by combining AI-based decision-making with human oversight.

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