Show HN: Waymark – A workflow engine that compiles jobs instead of replaying
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Hey everyone! @mozgiii and I have been working on Waymark for the better part of the last year. Waymark’s an open source durable execution library with similar functionality to Temporal or DBOS. I fell in love with durable execution a few years ago, after working at a company with a heavy pubsub architecture. In comparison to job orchestrators that force a certain task design or special syntax, many of these durable libs lets you write business logic in regular code: `asyncio.gather` to…
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Show HN: Waymark – A workflow engine that compiles jobs instead of replaying was first seen on Hacker News · Front page on Nov 5, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 131 checks on 4 different days, across 3 lists (Hacker News · Front page, Hacker News · Show HN, Hacker News · Show HN · this week). Its best position was #18 of 30, reached on Nov 7, 05:52 UTC. It dropped off the list after Nov 8, 14:50 UTC.
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| List | Best | Days | Checks | Last seen |
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| Hacker News · Front page | #18 | 2 | 54 | |
| Hacker News · Show HN | #20 | 2 | 38 | |
| Hacker News · Show HN · this week | #17 | 2 | 39 |
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This is so cool. I spent years at Pachyderm (YC...something) banging our head against: - we're "Bazel for data" - but...we have no Starlark. We're trying to port Airflow but it's not playing well with the way we cache partial results. Amazing to me that I'm only now seeing the architecture pattern of "pure…
Nice project! (And website!) Great to see some experimentation in this space. I really like the idea of 'make this async function a background process' using a simple annotation. What kind of IR do you use? I often wonder what a WASM based durable execution engine would look like. And what that pattern would unlock.
Durable execution has been on my radar for a minute but, although I've had a few pubsub usecases here and there, I've never had much call for long-running jobs that weren't simply cheaper to restart, AFAIR. With agentic workloads, though—especially trending towards high network calls and smaller models—I do find a…
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Is Show HN: Waymark – A workflow engine that compiles jobs instead of replaying trending on Hacker News right now?
Not at the moment. It was last on the list on Nov 8, 14:50 UTC, after 4 days of trending.
What is the highest rank Show HN: Waymark – A workflow engine that compiles jobs instead of replaying reached?
#18 on Hacker News · Front page, on Nov 7, 05:52 UTC. Trendoday checks this list every 15 minutes.
How long has Show HN: Waymark – A workflow engine that compiles jobs instead of replaying been trending?
It was first seen on Nov 5, 2026 and has been on the list on 4 days (131 checks) since.
How much discussion did it get on Hacker News?
81 points and 45 comments; submitted by icyfox on Nov 5, 2026.