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by achille-roussel 830 days ago
Hello everyone!

Today marks an important milestone for us with the launch of the developer preview of Dispatch.

Along with a serverless scheduler, we released an open-source Python SDK, providing developers with a simple programming model to integrate with Dispatch. This is the first of many steps on our mission to make distributed application development radically simpler.

To all developers tired of wrestling with infrastructure and eager to experience better tools to develop distributed applications, check out our blog post and take Dispatch for a ride!
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airstrike 830 days ago
Great post! I suggest adding a link to Dispatch earlier in the body. Right now the reader has to get all the way to "You can sign up to the developer preview for free today at https://console.dispatch.run !" before they know where to click (or maybe I need to get new eyeglasses!)
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achille-roussel 830 days ago
These are great suggestions, thanks for sharing!
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Yoric 830 days ago
Always happy to see a new entry in simple-ish distributed programming! Could you summarize how this differs from, say, Erlang/Elixir?
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achille-roussel 830 days ago
In some ways, there are a lot of similar aspiration with the Erlang actor model!

A major barrier to Erlang is adopting a new programming language, development tooling, etc...

What we aim to do with Dispatch is bring those distributed programming superpowers to mainstream programming languages that are developers are using.

A major conviction we have is that it should be possible to adopt Dispatch incrementally in an existing application.

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KRAKRISMOTT 830 days ago
So Temporal in Python?
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achille-roussel 830 days ago
People have told us many times that they tried to use Temporal to solve the problems that we designed Dispatch to solve for, so it's a fair comparison!

What we hope to deliver with Dispatch is a model that is a lot more incremental in its adoption and much simpler than what existing solutions have been able to achieve so far, both in terms of development UX and operational complexity.

Give it a try, and let us know what you think of it!

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