--- title: Absurd In Production | daily.dev description: Armin Ronacher shares five months of production experience running Absurd, a durable execution system built entirely on Postgres. The core design held up well:... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/absurd-in-production-2sbxsxfzn twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Absurd In Production | daily.dev og:description: Armin Ronacher shares five months of production experience running Absurd, a durable execution system built entirely on Postgres. The core design held up well:... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/absurd-in-production-2sbxsxfzn og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/2SBXsxFzn.png og:image:alt: Absurd In Production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Absurd In Production **[Armin Ronacher](https://daily.dev/sources/mitsuhiko)** · 9 min read · 14 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Armin Ronacher shares five months of production experience running Absurd, a durable execution system built entirely on Postgres. The core design held up well: tasks, steps, checkpoints, and events remain unchanged. Key additions include decomposed steps (beginStep/completeStep), task result inspection for parent-child workflows, a CLI tool (absurdctl) for debugging, a Go-based web dashboard (Habitat), and agent integration. The checkpoint-based replay model proved superior to deterministic replay systems, and pull-based scheduling simplified operations. Remaining gaps include no built-in scheduler, no push/webhook model, and lack of table partitioning support (with pg_cron limitations making partition lifecycle management tricky). The TypeScript SDK is ~1,400 lines vs Temporal's Python SDK at ~170,000, illustrating the value of keeping complexity in SQL. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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