Introducing Orkes Cloud and our new funding

Orkes Cloud has launched as a hosted service for Conductor, following extensive beta testing, offering users a streamlined experience by handling setup, maintenance, and management of high-performance clusters while providing enterprise features like role-based access control and single sign-on. Users can benefit from flexible data hosting and scalable compute options, with a free plan available or a pay-as-you-go enterprise plan. Orkes emphasizes its commitment to the open-source community by collaborating with Netflix on the Conductor roadmap and has secured $9.3 million in funding from prominent investors, including Battery Ventures and Vertex Ventures US, to expand its team and enterprise ecosystem. The founders, who previously worked with Conductor at Netflix, aimed to address the operational challenges of hosting and managing microservices-based architectures, which they observed as increasingly prevalent in fast-growing companies. Through Orkes, they aim to alleviate the burden on developers who otherwise spend significant time on non-core tasks like availability and security patching, allowing them to focus on innovation and building applications.