Screaming in the Cloud Reliable Software by Default with Jeremy Edberg
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Jul 10, 2025 Jeremy Edberg, CEO of DBOS and former Reliability Engineer for Netflix, shares his innovative philosophy on software reliability. He proposes saving entire apps in databases to prevent failures and discusses his 'build for three' approach to scalable design. Jeremy lightens the mood with his cheeky Arizona time zone hack at Reddit and critiques the pitfalls of traditional testing methods. He also debates user-centric pricing strategies and emphasizes the importance of making it easy for customers to leave, ironically boosting retention.
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Everything as a Database Insight
- DBOS offers a library that checkpoints your software state into a database for resilient apps.
- This ensures application state durability equal to data durability, simplifying reliability.
Unified Dev Experience Advice
- Use DBOS to develop locally with environment parity to production for serverless apps.
- Consolidate crons, queues, and compute into one code file to reduce complexity and config overhead.
Most Apps Don't Need Distributed Systems
- Most applications do not need complex distributed systems; a single database often suffices.
- 95% of people will never outgrow a single PostgreSQL machine.