--- title: Durable workflows 🔄 Explained | daily.dev description: Durable workflows (also called durable execution or workflows-as-code) let developers write long-running, multi-step async workflows as normal code, with the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/durable-workflows-explained-9k9nu9tki twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Durable workflows 🔄 Explained | daily.dev og:description: Durable workflows (also called durable execution or workflows-as-code) let developers write long-running, multi-step async workflows as normal code, with the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/durable-workflows-explained-9k9nu9tki og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/9K9Nu9TKI.png og:image:alt: Durable workflows 🔄 Explained og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- [Unzip](https://daily.dev/sources/unzip) [Read post](https://api.daily.dev/r/9K9Nu9TKI) # [Durable workflows 🔄 Explained](https://api.daily.dev/r/9K9Nu9TKI "Go to post") Durable workflows (also called durable execution or workflows-as-code) let developers write long-running, multi-step async workflows as normal code, with the runtime handling crashes, retries, pauses, and human approvals automatically. The post explains the core problem with traditional queue-based approaches, how durable execution solves it, trade-offs to consider (latency overhead, replay determinism constraints, tool fragmentation), and surveys the current landscape of tools including Temporal, Trigger.dev, Inngest, Cloudflare Workflows, Restate, and Postgres-backed options. The AI agent boom has made this pattern urgent, with major players like OpenAI, AWS, and Vercel shipping integrations in early 2026\. The author forecasts consolidation ahead given $650M+ in VC funding, and notes Postgres-backed solutions and self-hostable tools may gain traction as enterprises move LLM inference on-prem. 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