Cadence: The New Open Source Project for Building Complex Distributed Applications

Explore the powerful open source tool Cadence in this 44-minute conference talk by Uber's Ender Demirkaya and Emrah Seker. Discover how Cadence addresses challenges in building and operating complex distributed applications, focusing on durability, availability, and scalability. Learn how this fault-oblivious stateful code platform abstracts and eliminates the complexity of long-running business processes, tracking complex states, responding to asynchronous events, and communicating with external dependencies. Understand how Cadence preserves an application's entire state in durable and independent virtual memory, allowing for easy recovery from workflow interruptions. Gain insights into its value for development teams using microservices-based architectures, applications with multi-step concurrent workflows, and those relying on third-party APIs. Uncover how Cadence can enhance developer productivity and prevent system collapses in complex distributed environments.