Reading up on DBOS
2 deep · digging since may 29
- Postgres transactions are a distributed systems superpower
Co-locating workflow state and application data in Postgres enables atomic transactions that provide exactly-once execution without application-level idempotency logic.
- Building durable workflows on Postgres
Commenters debate using Postgres for durable workflows, praising its flexibility but warning it often leads to building a poor copy of dedicated workflow engines like Temporal.