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
architecture
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