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petereliaskraft.net • 111 days ago

Store Everything In Postgres

An idea on how to radically improve reliability and reduce complexity for stateful apps.

https://www.dbos.dev/blog/what-is-lightweight-durable-execution

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davidwelch.io•110 days ago

I believe this is called Kafka. Or maybe Nats. Right? 😜

petereliaskraft.net•111 days ago

The core idea is: every serious program makes its data durable, usually by storing it in a database (like Postgres). But no one ever thinks about making programs durable. When you restart your server, your data is safe in the database, but the programs you were running are gone forever.

petereliaskraft.net•111 days ago

If your programs could be as durable as your data already is, a ton of reliability and fault-tolerance problems in apps and microservices would disappear!

petereliaskraft.net•111 days ago

But how do you do this practically? How do you store a program’s execution state in a database in a way that’s both performant and easy to use, given that neither programming languages nor databases are built for this?

petereliaskraft.net•111 days ago

We wrote about this design pattern, how we implemented it in DBOS, and how you can use it in your applications.

https://www.dbos.dev/blog/what-is-lightweight-durable-execution

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