Durable Execution: How Temporal and Restate Are Changing Distributed Systems

Distributed systems have a dirty secret: most of the code isn’t business logic. It’s glue. Retry loops, idempotency keys, saga compensations, distributed locks, timeout handling — the machinery that makes workflows reliable dwarfs the code that makes them useful. Durable execution is a paradigm that promises to make this machinery invisible.

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AI Gateway: The Missing Infrastructure Layer for LLM-Powered Applications

As organizations move from LLM experimentation to production, a critical infrastructure gap becomes apparent: who manages the complexity of routing requests, controlling costs, enforcing rate limits, and maintaining observability across multiple AI providers? The answer increasingly is the AI Gateway — a purpose-built proxy layer sitting between your applications and LLM providers.

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