Postgres-Native Durable Workflow Engine for Backend Teams
P6/10May 28, 2026
WhatAn open-source durable workflow execution framework that runs entirely on Postgres, requiring no additional infrastructure like Cassandra or Redis.
SignalEngineering teams want the reliability guarantees of workflow orchestrators like Temporal but deeply resent the operational overhead of running separate distributed infrastructure just to get durable execution.
Why NowPostgres has matured with features like SKIP LOCKED, advisory locks, and logical replication that now make it genuinely viable as a workflow substrate, while the backlash against microservice complexity is pushing teams back toward simpler stacks.
MarketBackend engineering teams at mid-stage startups and enterprises; TAM overlaps with the workflow orchestration market (~$1B+); competes with Temporal, Inngest, and Hatchet but differentiated by zero-new-infra positioning.
MoatDeep Postgres integration creates switching costs once workflows are encoded in the system, and an open-source community can build a plugin ecosystem around Postgres-specific primitives.
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