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		lyu07282 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Hatchet v1 – A task orchestration platfor... Just no, your tasks should be idempotent. Distributed transactions are stupid.

williamdclt 11 months ago [–]

They’re not talking about distributed transactions: it’s not about a task being published and consumed atomically, it’s about it being consumed and executed atomically.

lyu07282 11 months ago | [–]

the workers aren't talking to postgres directly, thats why you would need distributed transactions.

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