Mike Stonebraker

You could have transactions.

If it failed, you'd fail over.

It was all that nifty stuff.

So we got funded to start a company in 2023.

And that was D-Boss Incorporated.

And we decided that was the name of the project.

It's always been the name of the project.

But we were basically in the programming language business.

And so at the current time, DBoss has a version of TypeScript, a version of Java, a version of Go.

and a version of Python, which are basically seamless.

It runs what looks like vanilla programs.

In the world of the cloud, there's every incentive for you to structure your application as a workflow.

And so we decided that we would support a workflow system, period.

And so the workflow that DBOS supports in those four languages is the steps in a workflow, the individual steps.

micro-ops, whatever you want to call them, are transactional.

Workflows are durable so that once you do a step, it's not forgotten.

And it's clear that we can make workflows atomic if there was a market for it.

which means the whole workflow would either finish or look like it never happened.

So it has very, very nice properties and is a great deal faster and a great deal easier to use than the competition.

So the company is selling and innovating in this area.