Cadence

Cadence is a durable, fault-tolerant workflow orchestration service for long-running, stateful applications.

GoJavaMicroservicesWorkflowOrchestration

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About Cadence

Cadence (originally from Uber) lets developers write workflows as code while the service ensures durable execution, retries, timers, and state persistence. It is well-suited for long-running business processes and microservice orchestration, with guarantees around reliability and replay.

Key Features

Durable, stateful workflow execution

Automatic retries, timers, and failure handling

Signals and queries for external interaction

Long-running workflows (days to months)

Multi-language client libraries

Pros

Strong durability and reliability guarantees

Good fit for complex microservice orchestration

Workflows authored as code

Cons

Operational overhead to run and scale the service

Determinism constraints in workflow code

Tool Information

Language: Go (service) + multi-language clients
License: Apache-2.0
Maintainer: Uber / community

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