Show HN: Workflow Orchestrator in Golang

• polaris

  1 243 5.8 Go

  Polaris: High performance workflow orchestrator for Golang (by harshadmanglani)

• trackman

  1 195 4.8 Go

  Execute commands as a workflow.

  

This looks very cool for embedding workflows in a native Go project. There is also Trackman (https://github.com/cloud66-oss/trackman) which is mostly built for workflow based commanline execution.

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• mgmt

  32 3,399 9.6 Go

  Next generation distributed, event-driven, parallel config management!

I don't generally believe in orchestrators (they miss the point, things are not single computers and neither is the world) and so I have that feedback here but also for:

> Airflow/Cadence/Temporal/Databuilderframework?

Which don't really think about modelling non-centralized things.

This of course doesn't mean they're not useful, it's just that they don't have what I believe is a good long-term value proposition.

I'm incredibly biased because I'm working on programmatic, real-time modelling of distributed systems with https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/

• Task

  113 10,017 9.6 MDX

  A task runner / simpler Make alternative written in Go

  

So many tools in this space! This one looks a little bit like go-task, but it seems maybe better for production workflows because if timeout support, while go-task seems more aimed to command line work/makefile replacement.

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https://github.com/go-task/task

• polaris-android

  2 62 4.5 Dart

  Android client for Polaris

Argh, using this would cause name collisions in my brain. https://github.com/agersant/polaris/ ^^

• unify-flowret

  2 90 5.7 Java

  A lightweight Java based orchestration engine

  

Nice. It is great to see native lightweight opensource (I hope it is considering that someone said that there is no license file yet) solutions hit this space. For what it's worth, I have built something similar to this but for Java programming language. You can find it here -> https://github.com/americanexpress/unify-flowret. My reason for building something like this was that the product market is just too unwieldy to work with and has multiple layers of complexity which most of the time can be done away with. Just my opinion.

On a side note, you will at some point in time have to deal with multi version workflows. I know that this is one feature that limits wide adoption of an orchestrator.

• databuilderframework

  1 31 - Java

  A data driven execution engine

  

Funnily enough, the Golang framework is almost a clone of https://github.com/flipkart-incubator/databuilderframework (another orchestration engine in Java).

This is another HN post that extensively covers almost every major orchestrator in the market: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24216317

As for multi version workflows, I suppose that will have to be a tradeoff between maintaining somewhat redundant code or adding workflows as WorkflowV1 and WorkflowV2 and stitching together relevant steps in respective versions (reduces redundancy to some extent but won't eliminate)

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