DBOS says Postgres queues can reach 30,000 workflows a second
Qian Li and Peter Kraft cut lock contention, transaction retries, and index churn, backing DBOS's case for simpler workflow infrastructure.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: DBOS
Why it matters
DBOS is testing whether developers can collapse queues, workflow recovery, and application state into Postgres. Its vendor-published benchmark reports high throughput under a defined no-op workload while exposing the hardware, partitioning, and database limits operators must consider.
DBOS co-founders Qian Li and Peter Kraft say they reached about 30,000 workflow executions per second with a Postgres-backed queue, after changes to locking, transaction isolation, and indexes. The result supports their larger bet: developers can run durable jobs without adding a separate queueing and orchestration service.…
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