Foxtel's Journey: Scaling Distributed Workflows, Applications, & Microservices with Orkes Conductor

About Foxtel

Foxtel is an Australian pay television company that offers a wide range of entertainment, sports, news, and lifestyle content through both satellite and cable services, as well as its streaming platforms. It provides access to live TV, on-demand content, and premium channels, catering to diverse viewing preferences. Foxtel is known for its extensive sports coverage, particularly in Australia, and has expanded its digital services to include Foxtel Now and BINGE, allowing subscribers to stream content across multiple devices.

The Challenge

• Limited number of microservices, communicating in a less complicated service mesh
• As the business evolves, more microservices and new domains added increased complexity of the microservices architecture
• Separate workflow execution logic from the business/feature logics
• Increased operational overhead in troubleshooting failures in microservices execution chain

Why Orkes?

Foxtel leverages Orkes to transform development of their distributed digital processes to ensure modern applications are agile, cost efficient, reliable, and scalable. Foxtel turned to Orkes for a number of reasons including

• A managed service via Orkes Cloud that included an option for a customer hosted deployment.
• No pipeline maintenance and Dev/QE effort on bug fixes
• Ability to focus more on delivering business features and internal architecture
• Cost saving on infrastructure resources

Orkes has been instrumental in increasing developer agility, creating cost efficiencies, and building highly reliable and secure applications.

— Thisara Alawala, Technical Architect

Results and Achievements

• Accelerating building, running, and scaling distributed applications
• Automated workflow execution with advanced scheduling capabilities
• Faster deployment of new applications
• Seamless migration of open source Conductor processes to the Orkes platform
• A single, scalable unified platform to build, run and scale all applications