Imast.ai, an AI HR agent built by an independent developer, accumulated 427 commits over 34 days from 1 May to 3 June 2026 but never acquired a paying customer, according to a post-mortem drawing on t…
UFO released ufo-core, an open source runtime for AI agents that lets teams run agents on their own infrastructure, with the same runtime powering UFO's hosted service at ufo.ai. The runtime runs as a…
A developer recounts how their team consolidated four databases—Mongo, Redis, Elasticsearch, and a vector database—into a single Postgres instance, citing reduced costs, lower operational overhead, an…
Jeremy Edberg and Qian Li propose using a database as the central orchestrator for AI workflows, storing both data and state to simplify architecture and improve reliability. Their DBOS project compil…
Cockroach Labs partner solutions architect Amine El Kouhen explains how DBOS embeds durable execution directly into applications as a library, using CockroachDB to persist workflow state and recover f…
Two blog posts from DBOS and Obelisk sparked a debate on using Postgres versus SQLite for durable workflow execution, with both arguing their preferred database can replace external orchestrators like…
A developer building a team of AI agents to generate reports from transcript data spent a month rewriting jobs as durable executions after cascading errors from failed API calls and memory issues brok…