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Backend01

Durable Execution Isn't About Agents — It's About Replayable Backend Workflows

I came to durable-execution runtimes through the agent press, but the constraint that surprises everyone is determinism on replay. These are my notes from working a six-step payment reconciliation as a Restate workflow in TypeScript — the line that broke replay, the mental model that fixed it, and the trade-offs that come with the pattern.

May 19
Engineering02

DBOS vs Temporal: When Postgres Is Enough for Durable Workflow Execution

DBOS reuses Postgres as the durability layer for workflows, while Temporal runs a dedicated cluster. The right choice depends on team size, workload shape, and where you want your operational budget to go. This is a practical rubric for picking between them.

Apr 26