How does it compare to a full-fledged durable execution platform like DBOS[0], which follows the same philosophy? Looks like River does have workflows, but it's locked behind Pro [1].

[0] https://dbos.dev

[1] https://riverqueue.com/docs/pro/workflows

Typo in title... it's River not Rive

Yes, if one of the admins/mods could correct this, it'd be amazing! The rest of the title is fine.

They avoided all those pesky distributed systems problems by making a system that is not distributed. Hell of a claim.