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Re:Show HN: DBOS TypeScript – Lightweight Durable Execution ... by peterkelly on Thursday January 16, 2025 @02:35PM (#42729833)
How do you persist execution state? Does it hook into the Python interpreter to capture referenced variables/data structures etc, so they are available when the state needs to be restored?
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Re:Show HN: DBOS TypeScript – Lightweight Durable Execution ... by KraftyOne on Thursday January 16, 2025 @02:40PM (#42729903)
That work is done by the decorators! They wrap around your functions and store the execution state of your workflows in Postgres, specifically:

- Which workflows are executing

- What their inputs were

- Which steps have completed

- What their outputs were

Here's a reference for the Postgres tables DBOS uses to manage that state: https://docs.dbos.dev/explanations/system-tables

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Re:Show HN: DBOS TypeScript – Lightweight Durable Execution ... by CMCDragonkai on Thursday January 16, 2025 @04:30PM (#42731140)
All of this seems it would fit any transactional key value structure.
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