An equally fascinating development is that the media giant said on Thursday that it would stop supporting Conductor, a popular orchestration engine for microservices that the streaming giant opened in 2016. Over 13,000 GitHub stars, and thousands of companies were using it as an indispensable part of their infrastructure-conductor is one of its most popular open source projects-but the company has determined to put its efforts somewhere else.

This strategic decision though difficult is a move so crucial in realigning our resources to serve even better our business objectives from our internal Conductor fork, the company said in an emailed statement. "Deeply grateful for your support and contributions over the years". Although Netflix is no longer to support this repo, active members in the Conductor community have been promoting other forks for this project so that the health of the community should be strong from now on.

Among the companies is Orkes, a company that was founded by the engineers who initially started working on the Conductor project when they were working at Netflix. Orkes plans to take ownership of the project through a new fork.

They'll continue to be in a close relationship with the remaining community of Conductor. "We are excited to work in partnership with the broader community to ensure that Conductor continues to thrive and this new chapter for Conductor OSS reflects the collective vision of this thriving community," Orkes says in its announcement. "This isn't just the continuation of an existing project; it's also acceleration of innovation with the interests of the community at the center."

Indeed, the company is putting a very positive spin on this news and also notes that "the roadmap for Conductor will now be firmly informed by those who use and love it: the open source community."

Most recently, Orkes launched its AI Orchestration platform. This makes it easier for developers to add language models and machine learning inferencing to their workflows by using pre-built integrations with services like Azure Open AI, OpenAI, and Google's Vertex AI. The company also launched Human Task, which brought human to AI workflows in a manner that it was easier to combine AI-based decision-making with human oversight at critical junctures in a business process. Along with this, the company also launched AI Orchestration.