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Software Engineering DailyModern Distributed Applications with Stephan Ewen
A major challenge with creating distributed applications is achieving resilience, reliability, and fault tolerance. It can take considerable engineering time to address non-functional concerns like retries, state synchronization, and distributed coordination. Event-driven models aim to simplify these issues, but often introduce new difficulties in debugging and operations.
Stephan Ewen is the Founder at Restate which aims to simplify modern distributed applications. He is also the co-creator of Apache Flink which is an open-source framework for unified stream-processing and batch-processing.
Stephan joins the show with Sean Falconer to talk about distributed applications and his work with...
2025-06-0541 minPodcast Archives - Software Engineering DailyModern Distributed Applications with Stephan Ewen
A major challenge with creating distributed applications is achieving resilience, reliability, and fault tolerance. It can take considerable engineering time to address non-functional concerns like retries, state synchronization, and distributed coordination. Event-driven models aim to simplify these issues, but often introduce new difficulties in debugging and operations.
Stephan Ewen is the Founder at Restate which aims to simplify modern distributed applications. He is also the co-creator of Apache Flink which is an open-source framework for unified stream-processing and batch-processing.
Stephan joins the show with Sean Falconer to talk about distributed applications and his work with...
2025-06-0541 minAll Content Archives - Software Engineering DailyModern Distributed Applications with Stephan Ewen
A major challenge with creating distributed applications is achieving resilience, reliability, and fault tolerance. It can take considerable engineering time to address non-functional concerns like retries, state synchronization, and distributed coordination. Event-driven models aim to simplify these issues, but often introduce new difficulties in debugging and operations.
Stephan Ewen is the Founder at Restate which aims to simplify modern distributed applications. He is also the co-creator of Apache Flink which is an open-source framework for unified stream-processing and batch-processing.
Stephan joins the show with Sean Falconer to talk about distributed applications and his work with...
2025-06-0541 min
Software Engineering DailyModern Distributed Applications with Stephan EwenA major challenge with creating distributed applications is achieving resilience, reliability, and fault tolerance. It can take considerable engineering time to address non-functional concerns like retries, state synchronization, and distributed coordination. Event-driven models aim to simplify these issues, but often introduce new difficulties in debugging and operations.
Stephan Ewen is the Founder at Restate which aims to simplify modern distributed applications. He is also the co-creator of Apache Flink which is an open-source framework for unified stream-processing and batch-processing.
Stephan joins the show with Sean Falconer to talk about...
2025-06-0541 min
The Changelog: Software Development, Open SourceThe era of durable execution (Interview)Stephan Ewen, Founder and CEO of Restate.dev joins the show to talk about the coming era of resilient apps, the meaning of and what it takes to achieve idempotency, this world of stateful durable execution functions, and when it makes sense to reach for this tech.
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2025-04-111h 40Changelog Master FeedThe era of durable execution (Changelog Interviews #636)Stephan Ewen, Founder and CEO of Restate.dev joins the show to talk about the coming era of resilient apps, the meaning of and what it takes to achieve idempotency, this world of stateful durable execution functions, and when it makes sense to reach for this tech.
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2025-04-111h 40Changelog InterviewsThe era of durable executionStephan Ewen, Founder and CEO of Restate.dev joins the show to talk about the coming era of resilient apps, the meaning of and what it takes to achieve idempotency, this world of stateful durable execution functions, and when it makes sense to reach for this tech.
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2025-04-111h 40
The Ravit ShowOrigin of Apache Flink and it's impact of the marketDo you want to know how Apache Flink was formed and transformed the world of stream processing? You get to hear it from the co-creator himself!
It was absolutely amazing to chat with Stephan Ewen, the visionary Co-creator of Apache Flink and Founder of Restate, at Flink Forward Berlin 2024, hosted by Ververica | Original creators of Apache Flink®
— We spoke about the origins of Apache Flink, exploring the inspiration behind its creation and how it transformed the world of stream processing. Stephan shared insights into the core challenges his team faced during Flink's development and how overcoming those hurdles shaped the...
2025-01-0212 min
ContributorNo PhD Required: Restate with Stephan EwanStephan Ewen (@StephanEwen) is the co-founder of Restate, the open-source workflow-as-code engine. Restate is lightweight, simple, and provides durable execution. Before Restate, Stephan co-created Apache Flink, the open-source stream processing framework. Lessons learned from Flink have heavily influenced the development of Restate, although Stephan says they have exact opposite use cases.
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In this episode we discuss:
The history of Flink and the...
2024-09-2532 min
ContributorNo PhD Required: Restate with Stephan EwenStephan Ewen (@StephanEwen) is the co-founder of Restate, the open-source workflow-as-code engine. Restate is lightweight, simple, and provides durable execution. Before Restate, Stephan co-created Apache Flink, the open-source stream processing framework. Lessons learned from Flink have heavily influenced the development of Restate, although Stephan says they have exact opposite use cases.
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In this episode we discuss:
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2024-09-2532 min
The GeekNarratorRestate - making distributed systems simple with Stephan EwenIn this video, I talk to Stephan Ewen from Restate, who is popularly known from the world of Apache Flink. We have talked about the problems in the world of Distributed systems and the complex solutions developers have to deal with. This complexity makes the architecture so complex that it eventually creates reliability, Observability and delivery velocity problems. Restate aims to solve it by making resilience and durability for your services, functions and RPC a lot simpler.
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:45 Introducing Restate: A Solution for Distributed System Challenges
01:22 Deep Dive into Restate with Stefan: From Apache Flink to Building Resilient...
2024-03-221h 05
Software HuddleDurable Async/Await with Stephan Ewen of RestateToday's guest is a legend in the distributed systems community. Stephan Ewan was one of the creators of Apache Flink, a stream processing engine that took off with the rise of Apache Kafka. Stephan is now working on core transactional problems by building a durable async/await system that integrates with any programming language. It's designed to help with a number of difficult problems in transactional processing, including idempotency, dual writes, distributed locks, and even simple retries and cancellation.In this episode, we get into the details of how Restate works and what it does. We cover...
2024-01-301h 04
Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developersSE-Radio Episode 346: Stephan Ewen on Streaming ArchitectureEdaena Salinas talks with Stephen Ewen about streaming architecture. Stephen is one of the original creators of Apache Flink. Topics discussed: stream processing vs batch processing, architecture components of stream architectures, Apache Flink...
2018-11-141h 02Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developersSE-Radio Episode 346: Stephan Ewen on Streaming ArchitectureEdaena Salinas talks with Stephen Ewen about streaming architecture. Stephen is one of the original creators of Apache Flink. Topics discussed: stream processing vs batch processing, architecture components of stream architectures, Apache Flink...
2018-11-141h 02Software Engineering Radio - The Podcast for Professional Software DevelopersSE-Radio Episode 346: Stephan Ewen on Streaming ArchitectureEdaena Salinas talks with Stephen Ewen about streaming architecture. Stephen is one of the original creators of Apache Flink. Topics discussed: stream processing vs batch processing, architecture components of stream architectures, Apache Flink...
2018-11-141h 02
Upcoming – FeatherCastApache Big Data EU 2016 – Monday morning keynotesThis morning in Seville, we had two great keynote. Stephan Ewen talked about stream processing in Apache Flink, and Alan Gates talked about the Apache Way training program he’s instituted at Hortonworks.
2016-11-1400 min