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Patrick and Jason discuss workflow orchestrators and their significance in managing batch jobs and distributed systems.

Patrick and Jason break down workflow orchestrators and why they matter for batch jobs, long-running tasks, and resumable distributed systems. They compare tools such as Airflow, Dagster, Temporal, Ray, and Kubeflow while explaining the infrastructure patterns behind them.

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