Peter is a co-founder of DBOS, helping you build reliable software effortlessly. He loves databases and distributed systems a little too much, so he did a PhD in them, working with Matei Zaharia and Peter Bailis at Stanford.
Building Durable Workflows From Scratch in JavaScript
Durable workflows - workflows that checkpoint their state to automatically recover from failure - enable developers to build reliable code faster and dramatically reduce the severity of production incidents. Most workflow systems require you to set up a bunch of infrastructure, but that’s not necessary! In this talk, we’ll show you how to build durable workflows in pure JavaScript, as a library any application can import.
