A significant challenge in developing distributed applications is ensuring resilience, reliability, and fault tolerance. Engineers often spend a lot of time addressing non-functional concerns like retries, state synchronization, and distributed coordination. While event-driven models aim to simplify these issues, they can introduce new difficulties in debugging and operations.
Stephan Ewen, the Founder of Restate, focuses on simplifying modern distributed applications. He is also the co-creator of Apache Flink, an open-source framework for unified stream and batch processing.
Stephan joins Sean Falconer on the show to discuss distributed applications and his work with Restate. Sean, an AI Entrepreneur in Residence at Confluent, has a background as an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works on diverse topics ranging from AI to quantum computing. You can connect with Sean on LinkedIn.
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