Alexander Belanger
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Last week, I published a new Github repository called "Durable execution the hard way". It explains how to build the core components of a workflow engine from scratch: workers, the task queue, and the durable event log.…
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We just moved into a larger office in Gowanus! We started with a small, 3-person space here in Brooklyn at the beginning of the year, but outgrew it quickly. We've built a remote team across EU and the US -- Boston, SF…
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I'm sorry I didn't respond to your job application. If I'm being honest, I probably didn't even read it. Here's why.
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April was an unbelievably great month at Hatchet: ➡️ We ran just over 3 billion tasks, a 27% increase over March. Two years ago when we first launched Hatchet Cloud, we ran 10k tasks the first week of launch; now we reg…
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Today we changed how Hatchet makes money. We're moving self-serve to pure pay-as-you go, going from four plans to two, and dropping plan fees entirely. Add a card, and your first 1M task runs and 1M events each month ar…
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Today we changed how Hatchet makes money. We're moving self-serve to pure pay-as-you go, going from four plans to two, and dropping plan fees entirely. Add a card, and your first 1M task runs and 1M events each month ar…
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Today we changed how Hatchet makes money. We're moving self-serve to pure pay-as-you go, going from four plans to two, and dropping plan fees entirely. Add a card, and your first 1M task runs and 1M events each month ar…
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Saw this on Reddit the other day. RAG is very much still a thing, it’s just called search again. It’s interesting to observe the tail end of the hype cycle on this one. It felt like thousands of companies were discoveri…
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I'm very skeptical when it comes to any kind of process which claims to improve the output of a software team, but the andon cord has served us well, and now I'd like to share it with all of you. When you're working on…
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We've been running our docs site on Nextra for 2+ years, but we've wanted to switch to Fumadocs for quite some time to make it even more customizable. We tried some variant of this with every single model for about a yea…
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Coding agents supercharge Murphy's Law. Like many others, we were hit by GitHub's outage yesterday. Right before I realized their actions were down, my local Claude session was asking to loop over every Github actions r…
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Our job board is now an SSH server. Last week, I posted about the volume of AI slop applications we're getting (hundreds per week), which were drowning out quality applications and making it incredibly difficult to par…
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What was the first idempotency key? I set out to find the answer. Along the way, I discovered that my dog Ringo, the Collison brothers, Steve Ballmer, the Inca Empire and Xerox have more in common than I previously thoug…
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Pleasantly surprised our 'Postgres Survival Guide' resonated with so many people -- even got a shoutout in the latest Postgres Weekly edition! 🐘
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I'm sorry I didn't respond to your job application. If I'm being honest, I probably didn't even read it. Here's why.
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We were trending at #1 on HN yesterday for a new Hatchet blog post titled “The startup’s Postgres survival guide.” Here’s a condensed version: 1. 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐚. After you’re deployed, sc…
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I'm very excited to welcome Trevor Wilson to the Hatchet team! Trevor joins us full-time from Edmonton, Canada and will lead our developer experience initiatives. We first encountered Trevor earlier this year, he was act…
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Last week, I published a new Github repository called "Durable execution the hard way". It explains how to build the core components of a workflow engine from scratch: workers, the task queue, and the durable event log.…
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We've updated the Hatchet landing page (again). Since the beginning of 2026, we've nearly doubled usage and revenue on the platform. We've also seen a bunch of new use cases and patterns when companies are adopting Hatch…
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Was great to meet with the Sweetspot team in Flatiron today for a debugging session and lunch! Sweetspot is using Hatchet for document processing pipelines, and we were working on optimizing their setup for lower latency…
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