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All of the Restate co-founders com from various stages of Apache Flink.

Restate is in many ways a mirror image to Flink. Both are event-streaming architectures, but otherwise make a lot of contrary design choices.

(This is not really helpful to understand what Restate does for you, but it is an interesting tid bit about the design.)

       Flink     |   Restate
  -------------------------------
                 |
    analytics    |  transactions
                 |
  coarse-grained |  fine-grained
    snapshots    | quorum replication
                 |
   throughput-   |  latency-sensitive
    optimized    |  
                 |
  app and Flink- |  disaggregated code
  share process  |   and framework
                 |
      Java       |      Rust

the list goes on...