Rippling Interview Question | System Design: Workflow Automation (with FAANG Senior Engineer)

System design for a workflow automation service by a FAANG Sr SWE that has reviewed over 100 design documents 📚

Examples of orchestration services:
Conductor (from Netflix)
Apache Airflow (from Airbnb)
AWS step functions
AWS SWF ("simple workflow service")
Azkaban (from LinkedIn)
Luigi (from Spotify)
Apache Oozie

Examples of Task Queues:
Celery

Examples of workflow automation services:
Zapier
Rippling
JIRA workflows

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Originally recorded 11/5/2022

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