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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🎵 Every step you take, every call you make - Restate’s fresh take on distributed apps observability
Find out how the UI helps you with developing and debugging your distributed apps.
Posted February 19, 2025 by Giselle van Dongen, Nik Nasr, and Igal Shilman ‐ 6 min read
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
Persistent serverless state machines with XState and Restate
Posted October 8, 2024 by Jack Kleeman ‐ 8 min read
Restate 1.1.0 and multiple SDKs released
We are pleased to announce that Restate 1.1.0 is available – an important milestone which includes a multitude of under-the-covers fixes, forward-compatibility with upcoming features, and improved performance. Together with the new release, we are also sharing updates about three new SDKs for building durable services with Restate.
Posted September 11, 2024 by Restate Team ‐ 6 min read