Postgres Transactions are a Distributed Systems Superpower
Summary
DBOS's blog argues that Postgres-backed durable workflows enable co-locating workflow state with application data, enabling atomic, exactly-once transactions and simplifying idempotency via transaction-scoped checkpoints. The piece covers the benefits of co-location, the transactional outbox pattern, and how a UDF can enqueue workflows in the same transaction, highlighting Postgres as a durable execution engine for distributed systems.