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Apr 26, 2026Engineering

DBOS vs Temporal: When Postgres Is Enough for Durable Workflow Execution

DBOS reuses Postgres as the durability layer for workflows, while Temporal runs a dedicated cluster. The right choice depends on team size, workload shape, and where you want your operational budget to go. This is a practical rubric for picking between them.

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Apr 17, 2026Engineering

The Transactional Outbox Is Not a Queue

The transactional outbox is a ledger, not a queue. Treating it like one is what breaks Postgres under load. This post walks through the specific failure modes — autovacuum stalls, xmin horizon drift, replication slot lag, poison pills — and the operational rules that actually keep it working in production.

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