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Really cool, the page is noticeably snappier. I'm wondering why they don't put the database on a network-attached block volume. DigitalOcean offers Volumes Block Storage, which is …

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Check out https://obeli.sk/blog/comparing-dbos-part-1/

Hi, I wrote a comparison blog post between Obelisk and the Java version of DBOS a couple of months ago: https://obeli.sk/blog/comparing-dbos-part-1/

I believe the codegen must be separated from the runtime. Every time you ask AI for a new task, it must be deployed as a separate app with the least amount of privileges possible, …

fsync is the most expensive operation during a write. NORMAL mode means you don't care whether last ~100 ms of transactions before a process crash / VM restart are going to be pers…

Author is setting PRAGMA synchronous="normal", meaning fsync is not issued as part of every write tx, but eventually. In order to make the comparison fair it should be set to "full…

Sorry for the late reply. The actual order in which child workflows finish and their results hit the persistence layer is indeed nondeterministic in real-time execution. Trying to …

> Just create a race condition among a join set. All responses and completed delays are stored in a table with an auto-incremented id, so the `-await-next` will always resolve to t…

Thanks for bringing that up. Regarding the NaN canonicalization, there is a flag for it in wasmtime [1], I should probably make sure it is turned on. Although I don't expect to be …

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The structured concurrency paradigm in workflows is stricter to what I'm reading here [1]. The whole execution model is different from the Task [2], as workflows are transparently …

Indeed. I cannot compare the implementations as flawless is not open source. However on a high level they both share the same philosophy. I believe the biggest difference is that O…

> I was referring to the workflows, that is, writing the workflows in managed languages, not the activities. Ah understood. I have no plans supporting native workflow executors. > …

> do I also need to compile activities to WASM Yes, currently all activities must conform to the WASI 0.2 standard. This is the simplest for deployment, as you only need the obelis…