Goodbye Distributed Coordination: How Restate Simplifies Distributed Apps with a Single Log

Building resilient distributed applications remains a significant challenge. Developers often spend considerable time addressing failover strategies, retries, race conditions, and other complexities. This article introduces Restate, a novel approach that simplifies development by avoiding distributed coordination. The core idea is to treat all systems (message queues, databases, locking services, etc.) as a single log. Every operation is recorded in this log, and retries automatically read previous operation records, preventing inconsistencies and race conditions. Restate is an open-source project based on this principle, simplifying the development and maintenance of distributed applications and improving system reliability.