short and sweet definition of what an orchestrator is by Pedram Navid, who's been silent for a while https://databased.pedramnavid.com/p/hello-from-the-void

It’s just CRON 🧌

orchestrator = pipelines + cron

well, notably cron doesn't retry the task or monitor for failures, so the cron analogy is good for trolling but not much else 😄

orchestrator = pipelines + cron + fail recovery + monitoring

I think resources management as well i.e. declaring that this node uses GPUs etc

And this is the difference between POC, MVP and a full product 😂