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Re:Just Use Postgres for Durable Workflows
on Thursday May 28, 2026 @06:38PM (#48316524)
Not a couple hundred in one day, a couple hundred being started, concurrently, every second in a day. Each with ~200 events.
We need a 12 node cassandra cluster for this, with 64cpu nodes. So no, it's not a couple of services and a postgres.
Sales team, as we are an enterprise, and they want to extract money from us.
Re:Just Use Postgres for Durable Workflows
on Thursday May 28, 2026 @06:34PM (#48316482)
I was not clear; I did not mean not 200 a day, it's 10s of thousands of concurrently running workflows, sometimes into the hundreds of thousands, each with 200 events. We run many hundreds of thousands of these a day.
Temporal was a bad fit for us, and we regret it deeply.