Comparison
OrchestrationvsOrchestrator
Orchestration
the sequencing, tool execution, retries, budgets and human checkpoints around the model calls are a few hundred lines of ordinary code you own.
The application code coordinating everything around model calls: sequencing, tool execution, state, retries, budgets and human checkpoints. Frameworks sell orchestration; a few hundred lines of your own code usually does it more transparently.
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something has to decide that the transform runs only after all four extracts finished, and retry the one that did not.
The system that decides what runs, in what order, when, and what happens when a step fails. It is the piece teams build themselves first and regret, because the hard parts are not scheduling but dependency resolution, retries, backfills, concurrency limits and a usable view of history. Choosing one is choosing a model of dependencies — time-based, task-based or data-based — and that model is much harder to change later than the tool is.
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