Microservice-based architectures have become a standard approach to building our apps and services. Despite the various patterns that have emerged, we still run a patchwork of queues, event stores, and cron jobs to achieve resilience and reliability across these disjointed services. The problem is that these patterns are leaky abstractions that burden developers with excessive implementation and operational complexity. Durable Execution is an emerging programming paradigm that transparently handles most of the failure scenarios at the platform level.