Durable Workflows on Postgres: What "You Don't Need Temporal" Actually Buys You (opens in new tab)

A DBOS blog post titled "Postgres is all you need for durable execution" reached the Hacker News front page this week (306 points, 132 comments). The thread split the way these threads always do. One half read it as relief: no more standing up a separate workflow service only to make a multi-step job survive a crash. The other half read it as a warning: you are about to put orchestration load on the same database that already runs your app. Both reactions are correct, and which one applies to...