Restate

Restate is a lightweight runtime that turns AI agents, workflows, and backend services into durable processes, solving the problem of building resilient distributed applications by eliminating the need for complex retry logic, state management, and infrastructure plumbing. It targets developers and engineering teams at companies of all sizes, from startups to enterprises, who build long-running, event-driven, or distributed applications. The runtime is positioned as a simpler alternative to existing durable execution systems, offering a single binary with zero dependencies that can be deployed on servers, containers, or serverless platforms.

Key features

• Durable execution for AI agents and workflows
• Automatic retries and failure recovery
• Stateful event processing
• Durable RPC and state machines
• Supports TypeScript, Java, Python, Go, Kotlin, Rust
• Deploy to Kubernetes, Lambda, Cloudflare Workers
• Single binary with zero dependencies
• High-performance Rust runtime