# restatedev/restate

Restate is the platform for building resilient applications that tolerate all infrastructure faults w/o the need for a PhD.

Repository: https://github.com/restatedev/restate
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/restate
Homepage: https://docs.restate.dev
Language: Rust
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: distributed-systems, async-await, durable-execution, microservices, consistent-state, reliable-communication, serverless, event-driven, cli, workflow-engine
Last push: 2026-08-26T19:18:55+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 98/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 99, longevity 95
- inputs: {"age_days": 1337, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 7, "gap_med": 12, "n_releases_24m": 36}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4343, forks 200 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:46.145791+00:00)

## What it is
Restate is a lightweight distributed runtime that turns backend services, workflows, and AI agents into durable processes with automatic recovery from failures. It provides durable execution, consistent built-in state, reliable exactly-once communication, and durable timers, deployable self-hosted, in the cloud, or via BYOC.

## Use cases
- build durable AI agents with reliable tool calls
- implement workflows-as-code that survive crashes
- orchestrate microservices with automatic retries
- process events with exactly-once guarantees
- run long-running async background tasks
- schedule durable timers and wait for external events
- manage stateful actors with strong consistency

## When to choose
- you need fault-tolerant multi-step workflows or orchestrations
- you are building stateful AI agents or long-running processes
- you want exactly-once event processing without manual plumbing
- you want a single self-contained binary with SDKs in TS, Java, Python, Go, or Rust

## When to avoid
- you only need simple stateless request/response services
- you cannot run additional infrastructure and prefer a pure library
- you need a fully managed platform and do not want cloud or self-hosted operation

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: active
- function: workflow-automation, microservices, streaming, scheduling, webhook, agent-framework, cli, self-hosted
- domain: microservices, backend, developer-tools, self-hosted
- platform: self-hosted, cloud, serverless, rust
- tags: durable-execution, workflow-engine, event-driven, exactly-once, durable-timers, stateful-actors, workflows-as-code, ai-agents, automation, linux, macos, docker, kubernetes

## Member repositories
- restatedev/restate (main) score 98

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:46.145791+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:21:36.233257+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/restatedev/restate (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:46.145791+00:00, sha b96b01a8a8dd)
  - homepage: https://docs.restate.dev (fetched 2026-08-29T09:10:27.969944+00:00, sha 7f9561653186)
  - site_page: https://docs.restate.dev/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T09:10:27.973594+00:00, sha f23f880ff910)
  - site_page: https://docs.restate.dev/quickstart (fetched 2026-08-29T09:10:27.975677+00:00, sha 15e433aa82e7)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.