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Qian Li
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Co-founder @dbos.dev • Stanford CS PhD
Co-organizer @southbaysystems.xyz
Working on 🐘 Database + Systems + AI
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Moreover, their execution is fully observable in the DBOS console (workflow graphs + management, shown in the screenshot) and instrumented with Logfire to trace token usage and cost per step.

Link to the original PR: github.com/pydantic/pyd...
Add DBOS durable agent demos by qianl15 · Pull Request #8 · pydantic/pydantic-stack-demo
Added two demos under the durable-exec folder: deep_research_dbos.py: similar to the Temporal example, you can interrupt the agent and resume with a workflow ID. twenty_questions_dbos.py: closer t...
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November 10, 2025 at 6:56 PM
p.s. We have quite a few LOTR fans here. One colleague joked, "DBOS might have saved Gondolin". Earlier this year, I finished both The Hobbit and LOTR books (and the movies, of course), so I'll allow it.
November 6, 2025 at 6:29 PM
@chris.wensel.net recording is available!
November 1, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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October 31, 2025 at 5:28 PM
That’s so cool! 🦇
October 31, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Got it! That's good to know 👍
October 30, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Oh this is cool! Thanks for sharing.
October 30, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Nice work! One of our users also merged a performance optimization with indexes. It's nice to build on top of other open source projects.
October 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Bonus: using DBOS durable agent integration, you can correlate Pydantic AI agent traces (e.g., token usage) and DBOS workflow execution in the same view.

Check it out here: docs.dbos.dev/integrations...
Logfire | DBOS Docs
Pydantic Logfire is an observability platform built on OpenTelemetry that makes it easy to monitor your application.
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October 28, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Thank you for the kind words! 😊
October 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM
See our open source repos here: github.com/dbos-inc
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DBOS makes durable workflows simple. Add a few annotations to your code to make it resilient to any failure. - DBOS, Inc.
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October 26, 2025 at 7:57 PM