Harry Pierson

The initial 0.5 preview release of DBOS Transact for Rust is now available crates.io/crates/dbos

I think I'm going to frame this and hang it above my desk so I don't forget it. (from pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/3..., linked from @doctorow.pluralistic.net's thread today)

Narrator: Nick is almost assuredly correct here

At one point last year, my dad asked me if I missed working at @microsoft.com. At the time I was like, "no, not really". After the ad @elienyc.bsky.social is referencing, it's a very strong "No Fucking Way"

With all disrespect, fuck you Electronic Arts

I guess these guys are public enemy #1 now

I don’t care where you started out on the political spectrum If your kid comes out as trans & you don’t become a rainbow-clad, parade-cheering ally & rock-solid supportive girl/boy/enby dad/mom? You were never a parent at all You were a doll collector furious they didn’t stay in their packaging.

Want to know how we built durable execution in Rust on top of Postgres? Check out this video for a first look at DBOS Rust, where @devhawk.net walks through how it works under the hood and demos what building durable Rust applications with DBOS looks like. youtu.be/kaQnXNwjcGc

Check out this new tutorial video. @devhawk.net demonstrates the new DBOS Conductor CLI tool, dbosctl, for managing durable workflow execution. youtu.be/77A21Sqt5Ug

I spent the long weekend redoing how @dbos.dev Rust steps capture context, because I was confused about how Rust async functions differ from C# and TypeScript async functions. This post would have been REALLY useful last week. cel.cs.brown.edu/blog/design-...

A preview for the Rustaceans: gist.github.com/devhawk/c504...

Six years ago, DBOS started as a joint research project at MIT and Stanford on applying database principles to modern applications. Today we announced a major milestone: the issuance of U.S. Patent for our database-centric durable workflow architecture.

When you talk about the Trojan Horse people are like "they couldn't have been that stupid" as if the United States of America didn't elect Trump twice

Well I was planning on working this morning. Not sure if Salem is on board with that plan

I'm watching Alien (rewatching obviously) Why do spaceships even have self destruct systems in scifi stories? Not "jury rig the ship to explode", a system designed to blow up the ship. I mean, what's the reasoning behind that? Who thought that was needed or even a not-batshit-insane idea? smh

My mother had two siblings growing up and they would fight as sibling often do. One time when my mother's sister and brother were fighting her sister explained to my grandmother that "by mistaking my foot was in his face". It was an #HonestMistake

Whenever I hear "rediscover" and "database" together, I think of Pat Helland's classic "Transaction Processing and the Barbarian Hordes" talk from *1996* www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoUp...

I *LOVE* Shaolin Soccer and cannot wait to see this movie! Thanks @bobchipman.bsky.social for sharing!

We just released DBOS Golang 0.19.0 This release introduces transactional data sources to the SDK. You can now execute your database queries and DBOS durability operations in the same transaction, enabling exactly-once execution. Full release notes: github.com/dbos-inc/dbo...

Blogged: All Right, Let's Do This One Last Time... devhawk.net/blog/2026/06...

LOL

Join us May 7 for DBOS User Group! We'll focus on what actually works in production: - LlamaIndex + DBOS (Adrian Lyjak): building agent workflows that survive restarts/errors. - Scaling to 4B workflows/day on Postgres w/ @petereliaskraft.net, what worked, what didn't. Sign up: luma.com/chh8mw4f

Creating agent workflows and architecting the logic is one thing, making them durable and fail-safe is another👇 New integration for durable agent workflows with @dbos.dev execution - Make sure your agents survive crashes, restarts, and errors without writing any checkpoint code.

Me: let's watch Predator Badlands My wife: yes! The geology of Yautja Prime is amazing! Me: I love you

A presentation so nice, I'm doing it twice. I'll be delivering my Building Reliable Workflows in Java talk again on Feb 24th, this time in Seattle. If you're a Java (or Kotlin!) developer, come hear all about what you can do with DBOS. www.meetup.com/seajug/event...

I had a blast at @pjug.bsky.social tonight. Thanks for having me!

Harry Pierson speaking at the Portland Java User Group #dbos @dbos.dev @devhawk.net

tonight in Portland Oregon: Portland Java User Group Tuesday January 27 2026 Building Reliable workflows in Java - Using DBOS #java #pdxtech RSVP: www.meetup.com/pdxjug/event...

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

Highly recommended! @bobchipman.bsky.social stuff is always top notch, but the history here was so frakking interesting!

Looking forward to the next #SeattleSystems meetup: luma.com/n6a1kjgj. My background is compilers & debuggers, with a healthy dose of database stuff. But I like to get outside my wheelhouse when I can, so I'm really excited about the Protosocket talk.