Introduction

Before elementa, I was an engineer at Facebook. And what struck them out to me as a huge opportunity for improvement was the orchestration space. Most of the time that any person puts a data product into production is being generated by some code they wrote. But it's consuming data from something upstream. So you kind of form this chain of dependencies. And that's what this graph is. The orchestrator is the piece of software that manages the fact that this thing has to happen before,. This thing which happens before this thing.