#Durable Execution

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Pratik Dhanave · ·9 min read

Durable Execution: Checkpoint Every Step, Resume After a Crash

Lesson 2 of Harness Engineering in Go — a workflow that saves its progress after each step and picks up exactly where it died, proven by a test that kills a real subprocess mid-run.

Lesson 2: a workflow that checkpoints after every step and resumes from the last one after a crash, why at-least-once execution forces idempotent steps, and the atomic-rename store that survives a killed process.

All posts on this site are written by Pratik Dhanave, an Agentic AI Architect with 7+ years building production distributed systems, multi-agent AI platforms, and cloud-native infrastructure. About the author → Each article includes working code, architecture diagrams, and references to the specific frameworks and standards discussed. Browse all posts or explore related topics using the tag cloud above.