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pg_textsearch
PostgreSQL extension for BM25 relevance-ranked full-text search. Postgres OSS licensed.
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flow
🌊 Continuously synchronize the systems where your data lives, to the systems where you _want_ it to live, by managing your data flows with Estuary. 🌊 (by estuary)
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agentspan
Durable, Distributed runtime for ALL of your agents - OpenAI, ADK, Langchain, Vercel, etc.
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The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives.
Hence, a higher number means a better absurd alternative or higher similarity.
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Pg_durable: Microsoft open sources in-database durable execution
If understanding correctly, Absurd (by the Pi LLM harness devs) minimizes the pure db approach as much as possible. I only just started getting into the topic myself, though.
https://github.com/earendil-works/absurd
- Is a Postgres-native durable workflow system
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Just Use Postgres for Durable Workflows
I do love Postgres and DBOS.
Recently started experimenting with https://github.com/earendil-works/absurd which is also Postgres and even simpler than DBOS. Their comparison is a great read:
https://earendil-works.github.io/absurd/comparison/
But for operational reasons I've started using sqlite for durable workflows instead. Porting the database concepts from either DBOS or absurd PG to SQLite is remarkably easy these days. A small polling loop instead of notify/listen.
- Workflows: Durable Execution with Just Postgres
- Absurd: Simplest durable execution workflow system
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Building a Durable Execution Engine with SQLite
I think this is great. We should see more simple solution to this problem.
I recently started doing something very similar on Postgres [1] and I'm greatly enjoying using it. I think the total solution I ended up with is under 3000 lines of code for both the SQL and the TypeScript SDK combined, and it's much easier to use and to operate than many of the solutions on the market today.
[1]: https://github.com/earendil-works/absurd
- Absurd Workflows: Durable Execution with Just Postgres
- Durable execution workflow system based on Postgres
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earendil-works/absurd is an open source project licensed under Apache License 2.0 which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of absurd is Python.
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