Cadence Workflow Joins the Cloud Native Computing Foundation

We’re proud to announce that the Cadence project has joined the CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation)^®, the open-source foundation that hosts and maintains critical components of modern cloud-native infrastructure including Kubernetes^®, Prometheus^®, and Envoy^® under the Linux Foundation^®.

Cadence is an open-source, fault-tolerant, and highly scalable workflow orchestration engine created at Uber to help developers build and run resilient applications. It’s been powering thousands of use cases at Uber and other companies. By managing distributed state, retries, scaling, and failure recovery, Cadence enables teams to focus on business logic rather than infrastructure complexity. Mission-critical applications across industries including finance, e-commerce, healthcare, and transportation depend on Cadence.

Joining CNCF marks a significant milestone for the Cadence project, emphasizing the project’s open source commitment. With its open governance, companies can join as maintainers and help improve long-term confidence. Increased transparency in roadmap and execution make upcoming features predictable.

Since its inception, the Cadence project’s ecosystem has reached over 150 companies and counting. Partners like NetApp^® and Instaclustr^® adopted the project and have offered it as a managed solution at scale. With CNCF’s support, the project aims to further its mission of simplifying distributed service development while delivering production-grade reliability at scale.

In the last several years, Cadence has made significant investments in its scalability, reliability, multitenancy, deployment safety, and portability, laying the necessary foundation to build enterprise-level features at scale, efficiently and reliably. It’s now a great time to build those features together, and we invite anyone to be a part of this future. Especially in the era of AI, Cadence will play a crucial role in durable orchestration.

We’ll stop using our Slack workspace (uber-cadence.slack.com). Going forward, we’ll use CNCF’s Slack workspace (cloud-native.slack.com). Join this new workspace using Community Inviter and join the #cadence-users channel to contact us. 

Our website (cadenceworkflow.io) and our GitHub org (github.com/cadence-workflow) will stay the same and we’ll continue sharing new features from there. 

We’ll publish our roadmap at https://github.com/orgs/cadence-workflow/projects. We’ll hold community meetings to brainstorm about and prioritize upcoming features. Project tracking will move from internal tools to GitHub. Projects will have dedicated issues so you can track pull requests, updates, and timelines. 

We’ll organize regular Meetups (in-person and virtual) to showcase new features, have discussions, and learn from valuable guests. 

For maintainers, we’ll hold regular meetings to update each other. If you’d like to become a maintainer, please contact us on Slack so we can help with starter tasks and larger projects as you gain experience.