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# Durable Execution: A Revolutionary Abstraction for Building Resilient Applications


- **Date:** Thursday, Jul 18, 2024
- **Time:** 14:10–14:40 (30 min)
- **Room:** STAGE 4 (500)
- **Event:** World Congress 2024

## Recording

[Watch recording](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1031-durable-execution-a-revolutionary-abstraction-for-building-resilient-applications)

## Description

The introduction of database transactions in the 1970s liberated application developers from writing low-level code to ensure data consistency. Although transactions elevated our approach to managing data within our applications, decades passed without an equivalent high-level abstraction that guaranteed the durable execution of the application itself. 

This talk will introduce and explore the concept of durable execution, which is based on nearly two decades of work designing and building large-scale distributed systems at Amazon, Microsoft, and Uber.

While this new programming model enables developers to build fault-tolerant applications, as with database transactions, it also simplifies the code and significantly boosts developer productivity. Come learn what durable execution is, how it works, and how organizations are already using it for mission-critical applications in production.

## Speaker

### [Maxim Fateev](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@maxim-fateev)

CTO & Cofounder, Temporal Technologies


## Related talks at this congress

- [Fault Tolerance and Consistency at Scale: Harnessing the Power of Distributed SQL Databases](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/274-fault-tolerance-and) — Wei Hu
- [Are you done yet? Mastering long-running processes in modern architectures](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/303-are-you-done-yet) — Bernd Ruecker
- [Dapr in Practice](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/238-dapr-in-practice) — marcklefter
- [Leveraging Moore’s Law: Optimising Database Performance](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/255-leveraging-moore-s) — Behrad Babaee