Dbos: Durable Workflow Orchestration with Go and PostgreSQL
4 days ago
- #workflow-orchestration
- #Postgres
- #reliability
- DBOS provides lightweight durable workflow orchestration on top of Postgres.
- It simplifies handling failures by checkpointing state in Postgres and automatically recovering from any failure.
- DBOS offers durable workflows, queues, notifications, scheduling, and event processing.
- Workflows are useful for business processes, data pipelines, and AI agents.
- Durable queues ensure task completion and flow control without needing a separate queueing service.
- Exactly-once event processing allows reliable webhooks and event listeners.
- Durable scheduling supports cron syntax and long pauses with automatic resumption.
- Durable notifications enable workflows to wait for events with exactly-once semantics.
- DBOS is compared to Temporal, Airflow, and Celery/BullMQ, highlighting its lightweight, Postgres-backed approach.
- Ideal for applications needing minimal rearchitecting, Postgres integration, or higher performance than Airflow.