The Anatomy of a Durable Execution Stack from First Principles
The architecture of Restate, a Durable Execution engine built from the ground up.
Posted February 20, 2025 by Stephan Ewen, Ahmed Farghal, and Till Rohrmann ‐ 20 min read
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Restate 1.2: a distributed durable execution engine, built from first principles
Restate 1.2 adds highly-available, distributed deployments and a graphical UI.
Posted February 18, 2025 by Ahmed Farghal, Till Rohrmann, Nik Nasr, Giselle van Dongen, Jack Kleeman, Francesco Guardiani, Igal Shilman, Muhamad Awad, Pavel Tcholakov, and Stephan Ewen ‐ 9 min read
Every System is a Log: Avoiding coordination in distributed applications
Distributed coordination makes application complex and brittle. Because all systems eventually build on logs, we can use a shared-log approach to eliminate most coordination. We discuss this conceptually and show how this is practically implemented in the open source project Restate.
Posted January 22, 2025 by Stephan Ewen, Jack Kleeman, and Giselle van Dongen ‐ 13 min read
Distributed Restate - A first look
A first look at distributed highly-available deployments of Restate and the architecture that supports those. We demonstate this through a geo-distributed active/active setup executing an order-processing app.
Posted November 21, 2024 by Stephan Ewen, Ahmed Farghal, and Till Rohrmann ‐ 11 min read
Building an LLM Chat & Task Bot with Durable Execution
Let's build a chat bot with Restate. The chat bot will answer questions and run certain tasks on our behalf, like setting reminders and watching the price of flight routes. It uses an LLM to process the language and generate actions (starting / cancelling / checking tasks).
Posted July 19, 2024 by Stephan Ewen ‐ 5 min read
Restate named to 2024 InfraRed100 List!
Restate named to Redpoint’s InfraRed 100. This prestigious list highlights the 100 up-and-coming private companies in Cloud Infrastructure.
Posted June 18, 2024 by Stephan Ewen ‐ 1 min read
Announcing Restate 1.0, Restate Cloud, and our Seed Funding Round
Today we are excited to announce a major milestone for Restate: the availability of Restate 1.0, early access to Restate Cloud, as well as our Series Seed funding round led by Redpoint Ventures, with participation from Essence VC, firstminute.capital and several angel investors.
Posted June 10, 2024 by Stephan Ewen ‐ 9 min read