New startup from Postgres creator puts the database at heart of software stack

Stonebreaker is 80 years old and he makes a new company. I'm almost 50 and wondering when my tech career will end. I would be happy if I could start a new company at 80.

A recent Stonebreaker video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB4bJqDzsU8

You don’t need to stop, especially if you have money and enjoy it. I will die starting new (tech) companies; I don’t need to make money and I just don’t like other things.

There's some saying about being old vs feeling old. Can't remember the wording.

the non-trade-mag version pointing to their actual website: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39678315

Hmm, AS400’s are back!

The article says "so far he has been able to build file, scheduling and messaging systems in DBOS by running SQL queries" but all I saw shown was typescript?

ooh ive been following their work[1], they published an interesting paper about transactions accross different data stores[2]

i wonder how it works with long running functions, does it lock the db?

[1] https://dbos-project.github.io/ [2] https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol16/p2742-kraft.pdf

A bit similar to Microsoft Orleans.