earendil-works/absurd

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Absurd is a Postgres-native durable execution (workflow) system that runs long-lived, reliable tasks using only a single SQL schema file and no additional services. It provides lightweight SDKs for TypeScript, Python, and Go, with step checkpointing, retries, sleeps, and race-free event handling.

Use cases

• run long-lived workflows that survive crashes and restarts
• process payments and orders with exactly-once semantics
• schedule and retry background tasks without a message broker
• build LLM agent pipelines that can suspend and resume
• implement delayed email or notification scheduling
• replace Temporal or Cadence with a simpler Postgres-only setup

When to choose

• you already run Postgres and want durable workflows with zero extra infrastructure
• you need retries, checkpointing, sleeps, and event waiting for long-running tasks
• you prefer a pull-based worker model with lightweight language-agnostic SDKs

When to avoid

• you need push-based task delivery to HTTP endpoints
• you require a coordinator, rich UI, or advanced orchestration features of Temporal/Cadence
• your workload is not backed by Postgres

Facets

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workflow-automation scheduling message-queue database concurrency backend microservices developer-tools databases python go self-hosted durable-execution postgres workflow-engine task-queue retries step-functions sdk automation nodejs docker

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