What does placing an order at Pizza Hut have in common with posting stories on Snapchat or watching movies on Netflix? You guessed it — all these companies have adopted Durable Execution to build their internal services over the last few years, and they’re very happy about it. Durable Execution has liberated developers from writing poorly tested boilerplate code to handle errors, failures, retries, and recoveries that would otherwise pollute their business logic. Durable Execution was already quietly revolutionizing software development before the AI wave emerged, with its need to run reliable operations at scale — from data preparation and training to inference and agentic logic. No wonder 16 of the top 20 AI companies have adopted it. This talk is about what Durable Execution is, how it works under the hood, and the new and powerful capabilities it brings to developers, beyond the immediate productivity gains.