Conceptual Guides

Learn the core concepts behind Orkes Conductor, including workflow architecture, worker polling, task states, and DAG-based workflow orchestration.

📄️ Conductor Architecture and Worker Polling

Learn the architecture of Orkes Conductor: state machine evaluator, task queues, workers, data stores, and APIs used to orchestrate distributed workflows.

📄️ Workflow and Task Status

Learn the workflow and task statuses in Orkes Conductor — RUNNING, COMPLETED, FAILED, and other execution states — and how they affect task lifecycle.

📄️ Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG)

Learn how directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) represent Orkes Conductor workflows, where tasks follow a directed path without circular dependencies.