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Making Software as Durable as Data with Peter Kraft from DBOS
Most workflow and orchestration tools rely on external systems and fragile state management, making it hard for applications, especially AI agents to recover from failures or long running interruptions.In this episode, David talks with Peter Kraft, co-founder of DBOS, about a new approach to durable execution. DBOS is a lightweight, database-backed library that checkpoints program state so applications can resume after crashes, upgrades, or API failures. Originating from Stanford research with Matei Zaharia and Michael Stonebraker, the idea is to make software as durable as data by storing…
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