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DBOS Blog
Company blog · dbos.dev/blog · on HN as qianli_csprogrammingsystems
DBOS Blog is the company blog at dbos.dev, writing about programming and systems. Since 2024, 33 different Hacker News readers have linked it 111 times, most often “DBOS Operating System”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 2 of 32 sampled comments recommend it, 3 are critical?
Why HN links it
HN readers link DBOS blog posts on durable execution, Postgres-backed workflows, serverless reliability and benchmarks, mostly as supporting references for points in their own comments.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 32 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
DBOS is an open source durable execution and workflow orchestration system that simplifies building and operating reliable, observable workflows.
Most-linked posts?
- DBOS Operating System11 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2024-03-12
- Durable execution should be lightweight4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2024-11-05
- Making Apps Durable with 10x Less Code3 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2025-03-31
- How to Test the Reliability of Durable Execution3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-07-09
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-11-24
- Handling Failures with Forks3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-05-23
- Postgres SELECT DISTINCT Does Not Scale2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2026-08-14
- How Postgres DELETE can actually scale2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-09-17
- Go-Native Durable Execution2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-01-20
- Does Postgres Scale?2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-04-24
What Hacker News says?
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on “Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws”Submitted The software you need for holiday overdecoration as a story · 209 points
HN discussionSince the author praises proper use of databases and talks about event bus, background jobs and caching, I highly recommend to check out https://dbos.dev if you have Python or TypeScript backends. DBOS nicely solves common challenges in simple and complex systems and can eliminate the need for running separate services such as Kafka, Redis or Celery. The best: DBOS can be used as a dependency and doesn't require dep…
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on “Good system design”Submitted Build durable workflows with Postgres as a story · 161 points
HN discussionThe SDKs -- which do most of the heavy lifting of managing state for you -- are open source. For example the TS SDK ( https://github.com/dbos-inc/dbos-transact ) runs on node and you can run node anywhere (k8s, VMs, etc.) With respect to AWS, where we currently host DBOS Cloud, we rent baremetal machines and built the entire hosting layer using Firecracker, Postgres, and other well known frameworks that we can bring…
Comment linking /blog/anatomy-of-dbos-cloud
on “Dokku: My favorite personal serverless platform”Submitted DBOS Operating System as a story · 123 points
HN discussionI liked Dokku when I was still happy using docker, but since I started working on https://www.dbos.dev/ , I value microVMs way more. The problem with Dokku is that, while its easy to use if you have experience in devops, well.. you still need to know devops! That's not what I call serverless...
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on “Dokku: My favorite personal serverless platform”Submitted I solved a distributed queue problem after 15 years as a story · 108 points
HN discussionSounds like you want an orchestration. Let's assume handoff happens when one "agent" finishes its work on one task, i.e. "submit a PR". At that point you want to exit the agent/clear context etc (any context the next actor needs should be in the handoff artifact). And the orchestrator calls the next agent with the artifact. Claude can do this with subagents. If you want to get more serious, I'd look at "durable work…
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on “What Is a Harness?”Submitted Postgres SELECT DISTINCT Does Not Scale as a story · 106 points
HN discussionReminds me of the DBOS, everything's a database, ethos. https://www.dbos.dev/
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on “Executable Is a SQLite Database”Submitted The New Three-Tier Application as a story · 81 points
HN discussionDBOS | Developer Relations Engineer | REMOTE | Full-time | $100K - $200K USD DBOS is a serverless platform for building reliable/durable backends at a fraction of the cost of competitors. We are looking for someone to help us spread the gospel of serverless and reliability. You would be responsible for building demo apps in Python and/or Typescript and the writing about them and talking about them around the interne…
Comment linking /jobs/developer-relations-engineer
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2024)”Submitted Durable execution should be lightweight as a story · 65 points
HN discussionI hate to shill my own company, but I took the job because I believe in it. You should check out DBOS and see if it meets your middle ground requirements. Works locally and in the cloud, has all the things you’d need to build a reliable and stateful application. [0] https://dbos.dev
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on “Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes”Submitted Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY actually scales as a story · 50 points
HN discussionAgreed that existing serverless stacks like lambda are a nightmare. But the real problem is that they don't solve the state management problem. (You need step functions to compose lambdas AND you need a bunch of custom logic for recovery in case lambdas crashes/pause/timeout). I do hope tomorrow's engineers won't have to learn devops to use the cloud. My team works on what we think is the better way to do serverless…
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on “Prisma Postgres – Runs on bare metal and unikernels”Submitted Making Serverless Orchestration 25x Faster as a story · 44 points
HN discussionDBOS [0] is outwardly similar although it's much younger. IIUC, internally DBOS is able to be more efficient and support lower latencies than Temporal because of the way it can push work down into Postgres stored procedures. [0] https://www.dbos.dev/
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on “How to do distributed locking (2016)”Submitted I solved a distributed queue problem after 15 years as a story · 39 points
HN discussion(DBOS co-founder here) From a DBOS perspective, the biggest differences are that DBOS runs in-process instead of on an external server, and DBOS lets you write worklflows as code instead of explicit DAGs. I'm less familiar with Hatchet, but here's a blog post comparing DBOS with Temporal, which also uses external orchestration for durable execution: https://www.dbos.dev/blog/durable-execution-coding-compariso...
Comment linking /blog/durable-execution-coding-comparison
on “Show HN: Hatchet v1 – A task orchestration platform built on Postgres”Submitted DBOS Cloud: Transactional Serverless Computing on a Cloud-Native OS as a story · 34 points
HN discussionThis is true. There is quite a lot of applications that you can just run out of the box but then I'll give you two cases where that won't be the case and do require patches: 1) In many interpreted languages it is common to have convenience commands that shell out to call a script which shells out to call another script and 8 layers later you get to the actual real command. When I'm creating a package for an applicat…
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on “Nanos – A Unikernel”Submitted How Postgres DELETE can actually scale as a story · 31 points
HN discussionThat was before DBOS -- the serverless platform that bills you only for CPU time, not wall clock time ;) see https://www.dbos.dev/blog/aws-lambda-hidden-wait-costs
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on “setBigTimeout”Submitted DBOS Cloud: Transactional Serverless Computing on a Cloud-Native OS as a story · 22 points
HN discussionThanks for the suggestion! One way would be to drop a note on discord. Otherwise there is a contact form https://www.dbos.dev/contact .
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on “Running Durable Workflows in Postgres Using DBOS”Submitted Just Use Postgres for Durable Workflows as a story · 20 points
HN discussionFirst: It's great to have some serious competition in the durable execution market! You build some impressive tech already! It took me a decent time to investigate before pulling the trigger on temporal at my current PSP fintech as you'll end up with a pretty hard vendor lock-in which has to be worth it. I have to say the architecture blog post is very leightweight on details, which makes it hard to judge so you hav…
Comment linking /blog/handling-failures-workflow-forks
on “Build durable workflows with Postgres”Submitted Postgres Queues Actually Scale as a story · 14 points
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