Stephan Ewen, Founder and CEO of Restate.dev joins the show to talk about the coming era of resilient apps, the meaning of and what it takes to achieve idempotency, this world of stateful durable execution functions, and when it makes sense to reach for this tech.
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Notes & Links
Chapters
| Chapter Number | Chapter Start Time | Chapter Title | Chapter Duration |
| 1 | 00:00 | This week on The Changelog | 00:56 |
| 2 | 00:56 | Sponsor: Retool | 02:45 |
| 3 | 03:46 | Start the show! | 03:10 |
| 4 | 06:56 | Demystify Idempotency | 02:13 |
| 5 | 09:09 | Achieving Idempotency | 02:29 |
| 6 | 11:38 | Where does the word Idempotency come from? | 02:15 |
| 7 | 13:53 | Why solve this problem? Why you? | 08:58 |
| 8 | 22:51 | Leaving Flink | 06:25 |
| 9 | 29:15 | Sponsor: Heroku | 02:40 |
| 10 | 31:56 | What is durability? | 07:26 |
| 11 | 39:22 | When should I reach for this? | 06:41 |
| 12 | 46:03 | The era of Resilent Apps as a service (RAaaS)? | 03:29 |
| 13 | 49:32 | Marketing challenge of resilience | 04:18 |
| 14 | 53:50 | Tangent: Why are AI agent demos booking flights? | 01:37 |
| 15 | 55:27 | Sponsor: Augment Code | 03:30 |
| 16 | 58:57 | Adam predicts that "this is the year" of durable and resilience | 11:50 |
| 17 | 1:10:46 | Infra required for Restate | 04:29 |
| 18 | 1:15:16 | It's Schrödinger's cat | 04:06 |
| 19 | 1:19:22 | Publishing Changelog with Restate? | 11:19 |
| 20 | 1:30:41 | This new world of durable execution functions | 05:32 |
| 21 | 1:36:13 | Changelog.com/community | 00:21 |
| 22 | 1:36:34 | Closing thoughts? | 01:50 |
| 23 | 1:38:24 | More thoughts and closing | 01:38 |