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Do you see this as a direct competitor to Ray's built-in workflow abstraction https://docs.ray.io/en/latest/workflows/management.html

Exciting to see more libraries built on Ray in any case!

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Great question! We actually looked at using the workflow abstraction for batch processing in our runner, but ultimately didn't because it was still in alpha (we use the dataset API for batch flows).

I think one area where we differ is our focus on streaming processing which I don't think is well supported with the workflow abstraction, and also having more resource management / use case driven IO.

Makes a ton of sense! I was present at the demo for this at last year's Ray conference and I definitely got the sense that a lot of the orchestration details were still being thought through, and that it was not yet a first-class streaming product.

Definitely like seeing more streaming-focused orchestration tools out there - it's a growing niche with not enough alternatives to Beam

We're thinking about attending this year's conference, so maybe we'll see you there :)

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