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A screenshot of the front page of HackerNews. DBOS is top-4.

Great way to start the weekend. Find us sitting on the front page of Hacker News on a Friday afternoon.

Andy's talk was so fun that I didn't notice an hour flew by.

Thanks Tejpal for a great shot of the back of my @dbos.dev T-shirt!
Got asked a lot what DBOS stands for, so I just turned around and showed them: Durable Backends, Observable & Simple.

Andy Pavlo presenting the slide "Agentic Reasoning for Databases"

We had our biggest @southbaysystems.xyz meetup yet last night! Thanks to everyone who came, and thanks to Databricks for hosting!

@andypavlo.bsky.social discussed the 50-year history of database tuning, applying AI/ML to the problem, and the future of auto-tuning (agentic reasoning, of course).

If your durable execution solution makes you rebuild your stack, it’s not a solution.

GitHub - runablehq/dbos-starter-template: This is a template app built with DBOS and Hono. This is a template app built with DBOS and Hono. Contribute to runablehq/dbos-starter-template development by creating an account on GitHub.

Community contributions are the best! I want to share this awesome DBOS Hono starter template created by our user:
github.com/runablehq/db...

It shows how to add durable workflows, retries, and background tasks to your stack just using Postgres + TypeScript. No app refactoring needed.

Java support is coming soon to DBOS!
I almost forgot how much fun (and pain) comes with statically typed languages.

Join our user group to try it out early. We’d love your feedback!

DBOS User Group: First Look at Java · Zoom · Luma Join us for August's virtual meetup to connect with DBOS engineers and fellow users. A first look at DBOS Java Customer demo by Doohickey. Doohickey helps…

We're bringing the community together again! Join us for August's user group virtual meetup.

- Get a first look at DBOS Java
- Customer demo from Doohickey (AI-powered workflow automation)
- Roadmap updates
- Q&A

🗓️ Thurs, August 28 | 11AM PDT
lu.ma/8rqv5o5z

Struggling to deploy Lambda functions from development into production? You're not alone.

Is your time-to-market getting crushed by failures, timeouts, and endless retries? Add durable execution to make your workflows crashproof so you can ship faster without firefighting your own infrastructure.

Happy weekend! I built my first voice agent this week and will present it at a meetup on Monday: lu.ma/o19i7hys

I'm traveling to San Francisco multiple times a week, and I'll break my record by going every day in the next few days. The drive is long, but worth it if more people know @dbos.dev

Making Apps Durable with 10x Less Code | DBOS Comparing the effort required to add durable execution to an application using DBOS Transact library vs. Temporal workflow orchestration service.

3/ The key takeaway is that durable execution works best when it’s integrated with your existing business logic, not separated from it. An embedded library like DBOS lets you add durability without tearing your app apart.

Learn more 👇🏽
www.dbos.dev/blog/durable...

2/ The two main approaches:

1. External orchestration (Temporal)
- Required re-architecting the entire app into 3 services
- Changed 100+ lines of code

2. Embedded library (DBOS):
- Installed the library, annotated workflows and steps
- Changed only 7 lines of code

How hard is it to add durable execution to your app?

We put it to the test by adding a durable workflow to a 110-line document indexing pipeline using two approaches.

GitHub - dbos-inc/dbos-transact-ts: Lightweight Durable TypeScript Workflows Lightweight Durable TypeScript Workflows. Contribute to dbos-inc/dbos-transact-ts development by creating an account on GitHub.

Just released DBOS TypeScript V3! I really like the new decorator-less API and its smooth compatibility with JavaScript. The updated DataSource API makes it easy to connect to multiple databases in a single app.

Check it out and give a ⭐ on GitHub: github.com/dbos-inc/dbo...

How to Test the Reliability of Durable Execution | DBOS We share learnings and best practices for testing durable execution based on our testing of DBOS.

4/ This approach ensures DBOS stays resilient even in the face of unpredictable failures. Give DBOS Transact a try and see what subtle and hard-to-reproduce bugs you discover.

www.dbos.dev/blog/how-to-...

3/ These failures include:
- Random process crashes and restarts
- Unexpected database disconnections
- Database crashes
- Rolling out new app versions mid-flight with old and new code running at the same time

2/ DBOS uses a Chaos Test suite that launches hundreds of distributed processes and runs complex workloads across durable workflows, queues, notifications, and more.

While these workloads run, we randomly inject failures to mimic real-world chaos.

Testing distributed systems at scale is grueling. So many things can go wrong across different processes at different times. Here's how DBOS stress-tests its system to make sure it holds up under real-world failures. 🧵

GitHub - dbos-inc/dbos-transact-ts: Lightweight Durable TypeScript Workflows Lightweight Durable TypeScript Workflows. Contribute to dbos-inc/dbos-transact-ts development by creating an account on GitHub.

No more guesswork. DBOS Transact lets you see exactly what’s happening in your workflows.

github.com/dbos-inc/dbo...

The bet on Postgres to be the backbone to run reliable services (Chat with Jeremy and Qian from DBOS) Podcast Episode · The Infra Pod · 07/28/2025 · 37m

In the latest Infra Pod with Ian and Tim, @jedberg.bsky.social and @qianli.dev discuss:

💠Building reliable & durable software
💠Why we’re betting on Postgres
💠How AI fits into traditional systems

Be sure to give this a listen 🎧👇
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Community is everything. Whether you want to share your project, connect with other DBOS users, or get your questions answered, we’re here to support you.

See you on Discord 👩🏻‍💻
discord.com/invite/jsmC6...

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Observability is more than logging. It’s about tracing every step of a workflow, pinpointing failures, and recovering without guesswork. DBOS makes this built-in by default so you can ship faster and sleep better.

🥭🍊🍌🍹

DBOS July Virtual Meetup: First Look At Go · Zoom · Luma Join us for July's virtual meetup to connect with DBOS engineers and fellow users. We're covering: DBOS at Ontologize: automating complex software…

Don’t miss our July virtual meetup today at 11AM PST.
We’ll showcase DBOS GO and share how teams like Ontologize are automating software deployments with DBOS.

🗓️ Thurs, July 24, 2026 at 11AM PST
Set a reminder below 👇
lu.ma/sfx9yccw?tk=...

We just wrapped up an amazing event yesterday. And we're already gearing up for the next big one with @andypavlo.bsky.social

Jacopo Tagliabue is presenting a live demo of Bauplan in front of a crowd.

Qian Li is introducing South Bay Systems to the audience.

Packed room at the South Bay Systems Meetup last night!

Thank you to everyone who joined us: engineers, students, tech leaders, and curious minds alike. It was incredible to see such a vibrant and engaged crowd come together around systems and infrastructure.

Slides are posted: southbaysystems.xyz

If you have a space in South Bay (Palo Alto, Mountain View, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, San Jose, etc), please reach out to us!

Build a Reliable Hacker News Deep Research AI Agent In this example, we use DBOS to build an AI deep research agent that autonomously searches Hacker...

Do people still use DevTo? I put a new tutorial about how to build a fun little app, a Hacker News research agent, and make it reliable: dev.to/dbos/build-a...

Let's Go 💙

New Screaming in the Cloud episode! @quinnypig.com and our CEO @jedberg.bsky.social "chat about Jeremy's "build for three" rule, a plan for scale without going crazy, why he set Reddit's servers to Arizona time to dodge daylight saving time, and how DBOS makes your app as tough as your data."