Xaksi
Xaksi is a fictional open-source software platform used here as an example of a modern data integration and workflow orchestration tool. It is designed to enable teams to build, deploy, and monitor data pipelines and automated processes across cloud and on-premises environments. The article uses Xaksi to illustrate common features and architectural choices found in real-world systems.
Xaksi provides a modular architecture with a runtime engine, a development environment called Xaksi Studio, and
Key features include data connectors to various data sources, stateful processing with checkpointing, backpressure handling, retries
Xaksi was conceptualized by a community of developers in 2020 and released as a software draft in
In the illustrative narrative, Xaksi has seen adoption by small teams and larger organizations for ETL, data
See also: related real-world systems for comparison: Apache NiFi, Apache Airflow, Apache Kafka, and data orchestration