Declarative beats duct tape. I spoke to Eddie Jaoude, Lead Education Engineer at Kestra at the Big Data London, to unpack how teams actually ship with modern orchestration.

Here is the flow we covered:

* Why defining workflows declaratively changes the game for developers coming from Python DAGs

* How teams adopt Kestra step by step without a risky forklift migration

* Using the Playground in Kestra 1.0 to test steps safely and tighten the feedback loop

* Plugging into existing stacks with plugins and a language-agnostic design so you do not rewrite everything

* The first usage patterns Eddie sees in the wild, from scheduled jobs and data pipelines to event-driven tasks

Clear takeaways. Fewer moving parts. Faster iteration. Stronger reliability.

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