Show HN: DBOS TypeScript – Lightweight Durable Execution Built on Postgres

Hi HN - Peter from DBOS here with my co-founder Qian (qianl_cs) Today we want to share our TypeScript library for lightweight durable execution. We’ve been working on it since last year and recently released v2.0 with a ton of new features and major API overhaul. https://github.com/dbos-inc/dbos-transact-ts Durable execution means persisting the execution state of your program while it runs, so if it is ever interrupted or crashes, it automatically resumes from where it left off. Durable execution is useful for a lot of things: - Orchestrating long-running or business-critical workflows so they seamlessly recover from any failure. - Running reliable background jobs with no timeouts. - Processing incoming events (e.g. from Kafka) exactly once - Running a fault-tolerant distributed task queue - Running a reliable cron scheduler - Operating an AI agent, or anything that connects to an unreliable or non-deterministic API. What’s unique about DBOS’s take on durable execu