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That's fair, the idea itself isn't new. Workflows/durable execution have been around forever (same story in Elixir). The differences are in the implementation and DX: the programmi…

Thanks for sharing, interesting project! One thing that stood out to me is that some fairly core features are gated behind a Pro tier. For context, there are prior projects in this…

This post seems to be published in a hurry. Under "How it works" section a bunch of duplication, and I think they should make the blog post exactly once :) Excerpt from the blog po…

I really enjoyed this post and love seeing more lightweight approaches! The deep dive on tradeoffs between different durable-execution approaches was great. For me, the most intere…

Yeah, in the long term, we're supporting more languages. But we aren't actively building new languages right now.

To build on what Peter said, we need to stay focused and make one backend solid before expanding. But architecturally, nothing prevents us from supporting more engines going forwar…

I'm excited about this because durable workflows are really important for making AI applications production ready :) Disclaimer: I'm working on DBOS, a durable workflow library bui…

We're seeing issues with multiple AWS services https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

In DBOS, workflows can be invoked directly as normal function calls or enqueued. Direct calls don't require any polling. For queued workflows, each process runs a lightweight polli…

Good questions! DBOS naturally scales to distributed environments, with many processes/servers per application and many applications running together. The key idea is to use the da…

I think one potential concern with "checkpoint execution state at every interaction with the outside world" is the size of the checkpoints. Allowing users to control the granularit…

I think a clearer way to think about this is "at least once" message delivery plus idempotent workflow execution is effectively exactly-once event processing. The DBOS workflow exe…

That password is only used by the GHA to start a local Postgres Docker container ( https://github.com/dbos-inc/dbos-transact-golang/blob/main/c... ), which is not accessible from o…

I think it was likely caused by the cache trying to compare the tag with Docker Hub: https://docs.docker.com/docker-hub/image-library/mirror/#wha... > "When a pull is attempted wit…

The main advantage is the same architectural benefit DBOS provides in other languages: you only need to deploy your application, so there's no separate coordinator to run. All func…