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Hi, the main motivation of this small personal project is the ability to build Postgres-backed python apps that remain fully pip-installable despite the dependency, while saving your users any need to setup Postgres if they don't have it. It also helps me, as a developer, to not have to remember how to set up postgres, which I find is one main barrier to using it for small stuff. It's a little project of mine that may be helpful to more people. I'm curious to hear your feedback (ps. I know about SQLite, but sometimes you want/need to build against postgres)
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2016 · magic.io
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2018 · bluejekyll.github.io
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2016 · github.com
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pgrust is a PostgreSQL rewrite in Rust I've been working on with my friend Jason. It now passes 100% of PostgreSQL's regression tests and we were even able to boot pgrust off an existing PostgreSQL 18.3 data directory. You can hack on its code or try it out quickly with the WASM build on pgrust.com. It's not production ready yet. I haven't focused on performance optimized yet and it's not compatible with existing PostgreSQL extensions. I want to improve upon Postgres in many ways in the future. I wrote about some here [0], and Jason and I saw a great talk in person at PGConf.dev a month ago…
Jun 2026 · github.com
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Hi HN – this is Peter from DBOS here with Qian (qianli_cs) and Jeremy (jedberg). We’re building an open-source, lightweight durable workflows library on top of Postgres. Ever since we first launched on HN last year, we’ve been blown away by the support, feedback, and response we’ve received from the community. We've realized durable workflows are critical for everything from business processes to AI automation to data pipelines, but most existing durable orchestration tools are either too heavy or too complicated for most applications. Instead, we're building something lightweight, simple,…
2025 · github.com
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2014 · databaselabs.io
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Hi HN! This is Qian here with Peter (KraftyOne) and Jeremy (jedberg). We’re building DBOS, an open-source, lightweight durable workflows library that you can add to Python apps in just a few lines of code. It’s comparable to popular open-source workflow and queue libraries like Airflow and Celery, but more lightweight with a greater focus on reliability and automatically recovering from failures. Our goal in building DBOS is to make workflows lightweight and flexible so you can add them to your existing apps with minimal work. Everything you need to run durable workflows and queues is…
2025 · github.com
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2019 · github.com
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At work we were using python-rq for background tasks. It does the job for simple things, but we kept bumping into limitations. We needed to schedule tasks hours / days out and trust they'd survive a restart. We wanted periodic tasks with proper overlap control. So we built a scheduling / enqueuing system around Postgres to bring these durability capabilities to python-rq. This worked fine for a while but was trickier to reason about due to its more complicated architecture (we'd run two separate services just for getting jobs from Postgres into the rq Redis queue, plus N actual…
Feb 2026 · github.com
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2019 · subzero.cloud
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Hi HN, Over the past year, I’ve been building a native MacOS Postgres client for my personal use. While there are plenty of existing clients, I built this because: - No open-source Postgres client matched the smooth UX of tools like Sequel Pro/SequelAce (for MySQL). - I missed the satisfaction of long-term product ownership and iteration—recent work has me jumping between projects. - I’ve been using Postgres more lately and wanted to get hands-on to deepen my knowledge. I also wanted a playground to experiment with client features that would help me on day-to-day. Some I have…
2025 · github.com
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I recently began using Python for AI projects and found Rye, which is an all-in-one tool that replaces Pyenv, Pip, and Venv, for a more project-centered approach to Python development (like Ruby or JavaScript or Rust). As someone who habitually writes tutorials for beginners, I wrote a series of articles for my mac.install.guide site advocating setting up Python projects using Rye. Am I leading beginners down the wrong path by suggesting Rye for Python tooling? Beginners often encounter READMEs and tutorials that show `pip install something` as a first step. That led me to the error "Command…
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2017 · github.com
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My name is Elliott. For the last three years, I’ve been building a DevOps platform on the best-in-class open source platforms (Kubernetes, Elixir, PostgreSQL, Grafana, etc.). The goal is to give engineering teams access to a modern DevOps infrastructure without needing to have a full SRE/DevOps team dedicated. It’s also open source /fair source - all the source code is here → https://github.com/batteries-included/batteries-included I shipped a public beta today and would love to hear initial reactions, thoughts, and feedback. Here are details of the platform: *…
2024 · batteriesincl.com
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2020 · dev.to
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