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☀️Summer is heating up, and so is systems chat! We're hosting a @southbaysystems.xyz June Coffee Chat next week. Come hang out with other systems folks for some casual conversations. 🗓 Thursday, June 5, 5–6 pm 📍 Courtyard outside Philz Sunnyvale Register here: lu.ma/67yxr1pn Hope to see you there!

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

🍴Wrote a new blog post on how durable workflows simplify bug fixing and recovery. Having persistent records of past executions is helpful because you can "fork" from the last failure point to a new code version, without duplicating already completed work. www.dbos.dev/blog/handlin...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

📣 DBOS User Group meetup next week: you're invited! We'll walk through our new Python 1.0 release, plus a sneak peek at the eng roadmap for TypeScript, graph visualization, and more languages. It's a casual chat on Discord, no recording, just hang out with fellow users. Come say hi! lu.ma/8ltwl38e

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

🚀 DBOS Python 1.0 is here! A year ago, we launched DBOS with a simple belief: durable workflows should be built into your applications, not bolted on. Today, we're excited to release DBOS Python 1.0, a major milestone shaped by months of iteration and community input. ⭐ github.com/dbos-inc/dbo...

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Timeouts are useful for building resilient systems. They help prevent systems from waiting indefinitely and free up resources while maintaining responsiveness under heavy load. Databases provide timeouts for individual queries, transactions, etc. But you often need end-to-end durable timeouts 🧵

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Just released some new DBOS features! - Auto-cancel on timeout is useful to avoid wasting resources/API calls when workflows can't meet SLAs. - Workflow fork enables failure recovery (from 3rd party services or bugs) with clean retries. - DBOS Client is great for programmatic workflow control.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Big DBOS release today! 🚀🚀🚀 Here are some of the new features that just came out: - Workflow cancel after timeouts - Workflow "fork" from a step - Managing workflows from DBOS Client - Filtering workflows on ID prefixes Python notes: github.com/dbos-inc/dbo... TS notes: github.com/dbos-inc/dbo...

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

Storing everything in database tables makes it easy to query, modify, and debug. You get full visibility and control over queues, workflows, and state — all via SQL. We’re now extending that power with richer visualizations in the web UI. Looking for feedback — what would help you most?

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment

Conventional wisdom says standing on the shoulders of giants—leveraging battle-tested technologies. However, it's worth re-evaluating that decision when prior art becomes a substantial blocker. Sometimes, you need a clean-slate approach. This paper shows a good example: why/how Ceph built BlueStore.

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment

The most common request we've heard from users has been better support for self-hosting DBOS at scale. We're excited to introduce 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫, a managed service for operating self-hosted apps in production. What sets DBOS apart is that Conductor runs out of band with no access to your private data. 🧵

submitted 68 days ago • 2 comments

I’m joining the DBOS User Group meetup next week to demo our new self-host feature! It’ll be another casual chat on Discord—no recording, just a chance to hang out with the developer team and other users.

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

You asked, we built. New feature coming soon? 👀

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Want to attach a debugger to that weird error you got in production yesterday? With the latest release of the DBOS debugger, you can get pretty close! It lets you take any past trace of a DBOS workflow, execute it locally, and attach a debugger to step through it and see what really happened.

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

I'm joining the @dbos.dev community meeting tomorrow to chat about our latest engineering progress and roadmap! Come hang out with us—ask us anything about DBOS! This won't be recorded, just a chill session with other developers. www.dbos.dev/dbos-user-gr...

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

New blog post! Wrote some thoughts on integrating AI agents with real-world systems. I think the missing piece is durable execution (as a library)—the ability to construct reliable tools that interact with external systems and recover smoothly from errors or failures. www.dbos.dev/blog/durable...

submitted 97 days ago • 2 comments

I think the single best decision we made when building DBOS was choosing to build everything on Postgres. Why?

submitted 99 days ago • 1 comment

Versioning is one of the biggest challenges in software development, especially when an app has long-running workflows that must continue running while the code is upgraded. Interestingly, co-designing durable execution with the runtime can make versioning significantly easier.

submitted 104 days ago • 1 comment

Just put together this new demo–an app that visualizes the execution of a durable workflow, showing you what code executes in its backend and how it seamlessly recovers from failures. Would love feedback on it! What works and what isn’t clear?

submitted 105 days ago • 1 comment

It’s hard to build a @nextjs.org js app that reliably handles tasks running longer than HTTP request timeouts. Traditional approaches? It's flaky at best. DBOS’s open-source TypeScript library lets you execute durable, long-running tasks directly in your Next.js app. 🧵

submitted 106 days ago • 2 comments

You can't fix what you can't measure. I like this paper's detailed measurement of RPCs in production. A recurring theme in this paper is variation. At hyperscale, RPCs exhibit significant diversity in processing time, CPU/memory usage, and request sizes. dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... Thoughts in 🧵

submitted 108 days ago • 1 comment

Over the past two days, the DBOS team gathered to plan our roadmap for the coming months. We combined creativity with practicality, exploring innovative new features while remaining fully committed to enhancing the user experience, aiming to make building reliable apps effortless.

submitted 111 days ago • 1 comment

Store Everything In Postgres An idea on how to radically improve reliability and reduce complexity for stateful apps. www.dbos.dev/blog/what-is...

submitted 113 days ago • 2 comments

A good read on how DynamoDB has evolved over the past decade. DynamoDB was originally launched in 2012, and this retrospective paper was published in 2022. www.usenix.org/conference/a... Some takeaways after reading it 🧵

submitted 115 days ago • 1 comment

What are your favorite observability frameworks and visualization tools? We're expanding observability support in @dbos.dev to improve custom trace exporting and visualization. We're looking to potentially integrate with some popular tools.

submitted 117 days ago • 3 comments

I think the most underrated benefit of durable execution is observability. Durable workflows and steps map 1-to-1 to traces and spans used in OTel and most modern observability frameworks. This makes monitoring easier: how often workflows run, where they spend time, and when they error.

submitted 117 days ago • 0 comments

One small ask for the community as we try to make DBOS easier to adopt: We just refreshed the “Learn DBOS” guides in our documentation. I’d be really grateful if anyone could look at the new guides, try them out, and give feedback on what works and what needs to be explained better. Thanks a lot!

submitted 119 days ago • 1 comment

Had our first @southbaysystems.xyz coffee chat today in downtown Sunnyvale (forgot to take pics)! It was amazing to meet everyone and chat about anything databases and distributed systems. We’re planning our talk series! If you have a venue or want to present your cool projects, please reach out☀️

submitted 125 days ago • 1 comment

Read the "BIG DEAL" CIDR'24 paper by Pat Helland. A Snapshot Isolation semantic contract between the database and applications is the BIG DEAL for making OLTP scalable. I really like the core idea of co-optimizing the database and applications. 🔗 www.cidrdb.org/cidr2024/pap...

submitted 129 days ago • 2 comments

Had a wonderful time presenting DBOS to the Bay Area Python Interest Group last night! There was a great discussion about how to integrate durable execution into existing apps--what got people excited about DBOS is that it's just a Python library, so you can "pip install" it into any existing app.

submitted 131 days ago • 0 comments

Hello! We are organizing our first South Bay Systems Coffee Chat next week. Register here: lu.ma/2f8y3fsj (w/ @alexmillerdb.bsky.social @yingjunwu.bsky.social) We're planning some talks in the upcoming weeks. Please follow the official account @southbaysystems.xyz 🦋 Stay tuned 👀

submitted 133 days ago • 1 comment

The SQLite VLDB'22 paper provides a detailed overview of SQLite architecture. I appreciate the authors' effort in analyzing the performance comparison with DuckDB. They honestly reported OLAP use cases where DuckDB is significantly faster and measured one level deeper. www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol15/...

submitted 136 days ago • 1 comment

The DBOS project, which builds a durable workflow execution engine on top of standard Postgres, seems like a really helpful project for folks that don't want to go all-in on using an external service like Temporal, Cadence, etc. supabase.com/blog/durable...

submitted 138 days ago • 1 comment

Excited to announce the release of DBOS TypeScript v2.0! With this release, you can easily add durable execution to any TypeScript app, such as apps built with Next.js or Express. 🔗 github.com/dbos-inc/dbo... DBOS enables reliable workflows, cron jobs, and queues -- all built on top of Postgres.

submitted 139 days ago • 3 comments

Demo from a user 💙 Jacopo Tagliabue has built a reliable data lake ingestion app using Bauplan and @dbos.dev, all in <100 lines of Python. It uses Bauplan to implement a write-audit-publish pattern and DBOS to orchestrate the pipeline durably. I love how lightweight it is. github.com/BauplanLabs/...

submitted 140 days ago • 0 comments