Durable workflows

Hold

Techniques

Workflow execution patterns that persist state so work can resume after failure.

Why it's here

Placed in Hold: 1 article(s) of evidence from 1 source(s), led by research-stage coverage, with 0 in the last 30 days. Confidence 24%. Low accumulated evidence, so it defaults conservatively pending more signal.

Evidence (1)

6Hacker News·7/2/2026research
Postgres transactions as a workflow superpower
The article argues that workflow state and application data can live in the same Postgres database, allowing both to be updated in a single transaction. This removes failure windows that cause duplicate side effects, simplifying idempotency and enabling exactly-once execution for transactional workflow steps.