Backend
Durable Execution Isn't About Agents — It's About Replayable Backend Workflows
I came to durable-execution runtimes through the agent press, but the constraint that surprises everyone is determinism on replay. These are my notes from working a six-step payment reconciliation as a Restate workflow in TypeScript — the line that broke replay, the mental model that fixed it, and the trade-offs that come with the pattern.