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Stephan Ewen

@stephanewen.bsky.social

Building distributed systems and data infra. Previously co-creator of Apache Flink (flink.apache.org), now building Restate (restate.dev) to make distributed apps more easily resilient and scalable.

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Stephan Ewen @stephanewen.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Is this where we currently are?

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Stephan Ewen @stephanewen.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I have this slide from a presentation at Kafka Summit / Current about that.

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Stephan Ewen @stephanewen.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

But how is this practically usable? Our DBs and queues aren't built like this. How do we strike a sweet-spot between this model (great consistency) and maintaining healthy decoupling and separation of concerns? The blog post discusses that and how it inspired our work on @restatedev.bsky.social

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Stephan Ewen @stephanewen.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Applications coordinate with many systems (DBs, queues, locks, schedulers, ...) which are all logs underneath. Each maintains its own ground truth, without common order or conditions. By letting all those logs build on top of a common log, many dist. sys. problems in apps virtually disappear. 👇

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Stephan Ewen @stephanewen.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

This is why we are building software and open-source communities. To get such messages from users, the best possible reward. Kudos to the entire @restatedev.bsky.social team.

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Stephan Ewen @stephanewen.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

This made me laugh and feel humbled. Being in the same sentence as Currywurst and the Berghain. Life goal achieved!

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