Patrick and Jason break down workflow orchestrators and why they matter for batch jobs, long-running tasks, and resumable distributed systems. They compare tools such as Airflow, Dagster, Temporal, Ray, and Kubeflow while explaining the infrastructure patterns behind them.

There Are A Thousand Starlink Satellites in Orbit

37signals: Working Remotely Is Not Enough

Nip IO: The Way to Get In Trouble at Work

Workflow Orchestration: History and Backfill

186: Becoming a Manager

Programming Throwdown educates Computer Scientists and Software Engineers on a cavalcade of programming and tech topics. Every show will cover a new programming language, so listeners will be able to speak intelligently about any programming language.