Founder @hatchet_dev (YC W24) | Prev founder CTO @porterdotrun (YC S20) | Software infrastructure engineer, OSS/devtools enthusiast.

Joined May 2025
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You too can build a workflow engine. Here's a blueprint on how to do it, which I've called "durable execution the hard way." The first seven lessons are out now! github.com/hatchet-dev/durab…
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Alexander Belanger retweeted
Here's Hatchet v0.89.0 🎉 Introducing performance improvements, bug fixes to the engine, and some UX changes to the dashboard Some highlights: 🧠Consolidated billing at the org level in Hatchet Cloud, a single surface for managing billing and resource limits across all tenants 🏎️ Improved engine query performance when filtering runs by status via the dashboard 🔎Improved engine query performance when filtering runs by status via the dashboard Full release notes and Changelog linked below ⬇️
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It's queues all the way down.
Everyone's banging on about loops When they should be thinking about queues
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Alexander Belanger retweeted
@ycombinator W24, a great batch! 🚀
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It's been amazing to watch @dakshgup @soohoonchoi and @vaishaaant building @greptile and a privilege to partner with them along the way.
Over 9,000 engineering teams use @greptile to process millions of AI code reviews daily. We're proud to power the orchestration engine underneath to deliver real-time visibility across every workflow. Many thanks to @soohoonchoi for sharing what it's like to use Hatchet! 💙
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Alexander Belanger retweeted
Did you ever hear the one about three workers who walk into an S3 bucket? They all processed the same object. 🥁 Ba dum tss. (That's a really bad joke and also a bad thing that happens without concurrency control. We can't fix our sense of humor but we can help with the second part.)
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Our new homepage is looking good! Also, as @abelanger5 mentioned, we've nearly doubled @hatchet_dev usage and revenue since the beginning of the year. Big couple of months for us. 🚀
We've updated the @hatchet_dev landing page... again. Why? In 2026, we've nearly doubled usage and revenue on the platform. We've also seen lots of new use cases and patterns when companies are adopting Hatchet, which we needed to better illustrate. In particular, platform teams are using Hatchet to provide a set of guardrails for their product teams building AI workloads at scale (data ingestion and AI agents, especially). We've seen platform teams take the primitives that Hatchet provides, like tasks, streaming, and observability, and compose them into more complex patterns. As always, feedback is welcome.
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We've updated the @hatchet_dev landing page... again. Why? In 2026, we've nearly doubled usage and revenue on the platform. We've also seen lots of new use cases and patterns when companies are adopting Hatchet, which we needed to better illustrate. In particular, platform teams are using Hatchet to provide a set of guardrails for their product teams building AI workloads at scale (data ingestion and AI agents, especially). We've seen platform teams take the primitives that Hatchet provides, like tasks, streaming, and observability, and compose them into more complex patterns. As always, feedback is welcome.
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Replying to @abelanger5
Our marketing can be a bit much sometimes, but is a good engineering content. @abelanger5 is building a durable execution engine in 7 lessons. “Kubernetes The Hard Way” energy, but for workflow engines. If you care about orchestration, queues, etc. you will probably enjoy this.
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Alexander Belanger retweeted
I have feelings too, you know.
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Replying to @meganeoleary
bro who tf named their company "hatchet"
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I have many thoughts on the pitfalls of using Celery in Python applications based on years of personal experience and conversations with users. So many in fact, that I wrote a blog post about them: hatchet.run/blog/problems-wi…
We just published a guide for teams moving from Celery to Hatchet, including common Celery patterns, the Hatchet replacements, and what to watch out for.
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Alexander Belanger retweeted
Say Sláinte 🇮🇪 Bonjour 🇫🇷 Hola 🇪🇸 Hej 🇸🇪 Hallo 🇩🇪 to Hatchet EU! 🌍 We're now available in eu-west-1. Sign up at cloud.hatchet.run to get up and running.
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Alexander Belanger retweeted
It’s really nice to see Google launching AX x.com/rakyll/status/20571295… Agents are making async workflows, including durable execution, much more prominent. Running agents in production means a lot of unreliable RPCs, with all the consequences: retries, waits, rate limits, partial failures, and resuming work without duplicating expensive steps. At @hatchet_dev, we bet that this is where the infrastructure is going. 🧵

🌟 Today, we are releasing Google’s open source distributed agent runtime. Agent Executor (AX) is a general purpose runtime and aims to solve dynamic scheduling, resumption, auto recovery, auditing, and trajectory branching from kernel snapshots in agentic workloads.
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Alexander Belanger retweeted
Big news! We just rolled out new regions in us-east-1 and eu-west-1, now available on cloud.hatchet.run. #HatchetWorldwide
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Great to meet with the @SweetspotGov team! Sweetspot is using Hatchet for document processing pipelines, we spent some time today optimizing their setup for lower latency and scale. Excited to see how far we can push Hatchet as they continue to ramp up their workflows. 🔥
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Alexander Belanger retweeted
New in Hatchet 1.22.3: Our TypeScript SDK is now compatible with Bun! 🪓
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New @hatchet_dev HQ in Brooklyn! We started with a 3-person space in January and outgrew it quickly. Remote-first Hatchlings from across the EU and US (Boston, SF, Philadelphia, Amsterdam, and Luxembourg) are now regularly working in-person with us here in NYC.
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Alexander Belanger retweeted
🚨 We're hiring a Growth Engineer! 🚨 Here are some thoughts from a totally unbiased focus group on why you should join our team.
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we're hiring a growth engineer at @hatchet_dev! if you're a talented, ambitious person looking to work in startup growth alongside truly world-class product engineering talent (who also happen to be brilliant, kind, and hilarious), here are a couple things you should know... 🧵
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