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Why Does a Workflow That Runs Forever Need Continue-as-New?

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Short answer: a Dapr workflow's history only grows, and continue-as-new is the operation that starts it again with an empty one. The hard part is that the history is also how the workflow survives. Dapr Workflow keeps an append-only log of every step and replays it to rebuild state after a restart.…

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  1. 2026-10-22 08:40 · DEV Community — AI
    Why Does a Workflow That Runs Forever Need Continue-as-New?

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