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Postgres transactions are a distributed systems superpower

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On Hacker News today: PostgreSQL transactions as a distributed systems tool. According to DBOS, co-locating workflow state with your data in the database—rather than managing it separately—lets you leverage PostgreSQL's ACID guarantees for consistency. This simplifies your architecture and reduces the bugs that plague distributed systems.

Source: https://www.dbos.dev/blog/co-locating-workflow-state-with...

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