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by mpweiher 828 days ago
Yikes...the gobbledygook that passes for a code-example on the home page is not exactly an advertisement.

    await ctxt.invoke(Shop).
is repeated 5 times in what I'd say are about 7 active lines of code. Then, because it's so unreadable, you have a comment per line that needs to explain what the line does. Hmm..
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Anyone who took the time to actually check this out can see that it's just TS over postgres with muddled logic and arbitrary features that seem to try to solve problems that only vaguely exist.

The code examples indeed demonstrate exactly the sort of confusion that the entire product screeches.

Just seems like a way to rope people into a service (DBOS Cloud) they don't actually need (which may or may not be expensive, as information regarding this service is greatly lacking.)

Perhaps it's true that this is a project in the early stages, but with the heavy-handed sales language baked into the site, perhaps it was announced a bit too early..?

I'm not sure why you think these solve problems that only vaguely exist. If the claims they make are true, it's basically AppEngine+Cloud SQL, but in a package that makes every line of code trivially transactional and replayable. That addresses problems literally everyone has.