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 and Jack Kleeman and Giselle van Dongen ‐ 13 min read
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 and Ahmed Farghal and Till Rohrmann ‐ 11 min read
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 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
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
The new Restate Java SDK is out, to build resilient apps in Java and Kotlin..
Posted December 13, 2023 by Stephan Ewen and Giselle van Dongen and Pavel Tcholakov ‐ 4 min read
We show you a new way to build complex business processes on AWS Lambda, where you can do everything with sequential code and service-style RPCs, no workflow DSL or plumbing events.
Posted November 27, 2023 by Jack Kleeman and Pavel Tcholakov and Stephan Ewen ‐ 12 min read