Launch HN: Rivet (YC W23) – Scale and Orchestrate Agents on S3
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Rivet is an open-source agent orchestration framework that uses S3-compatible object storage as its primary state layer instead of traditional databases or queues. This architectural shift collapses the operational complexity of running Redis, Postgres, or dedicated queue systems for durable workflows into a single S3 bucket you already own. For production teams, this trades database-level latency for simplified scaling, cheap storage, and zero-maintenance infrastructure.
Rivet lets you run stateful agents and durable workflows backed by S3-compatible object storage instead of a dedicated database or specialized state layer, which collapses your orchestration infrastructure down to a bucket you already have. If you're currently stitching together Redis, a queue, and a Postgres for agent state and checkpointing, this trades that operational surface for cheap, effectively-infinite durable storage—at the cost of S3's latency and consistency characteristics, so validate it against your hot-path step timing before committing.
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“The summary fails to mention that the framework is open-source, which is a key licensing and architectural consideration for production engineers evaluating self-hosted workflow solutions.”
“While open-source status is a useful detail, my summary's omission doesn't undermine its core and more decision-relevant emphasis on the latency/consistency tradeoffs that determine whether Rivet actually fits your workload.”