Open Source Summit North America 2023

Cadence is a powerful new open source tool addressing many of the challenges around building and operating complex distributed applications – namely, ensuring their durability, availability, and scalability. Developers grapple with convoluted systems when building long-running business processes, which require tracking complex states, responding to asynchronous events, and communicating with external dependencies which may or may not be reliable. Because these solutions require difficult maintenance and commonly suffer from availability issues, developer productivity is often sacrificed to prevent their collapse. Session attendees will understand how open source Cadence abstracts and eliminates this burdensome complexity by offering a fault-oblivious stateful code platform. Cadence functions by preserving an application’s entire state in durable and independent virtual memory. Any workflow interruptions that would normally put availability at risk can be easily caught up and replayed using that stored application state. This makes Cadence particularly valuable to dev teams leveraging microservices-based architectures requiring fault tolerance, as well as teams with applications relying on multi-step workflows that run concurrently, and those leveraging third-party APIs.