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bccdeelast Sunday at 3:35 PM0 repliesview on HN

I've been seeing a lot of these durable workflow engines around lately, for some reason. I'm not sure I understand the pitch. It just seems like a thin wrapper around some very normal patterns for running background jobs. Persist your jobs in a db, checkpoint as necessary, periodically retry. I guess they're meant to be a low-code alternative to writing the db tables yourself, but it seems like you're not saving much code in practice.