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What architectural differences exist between Restate's journaled services and Catalyst's agent runners?

Restate uses journaled services where you define workflows via SDKs with built-in state and virtual objects. Catalyst uses framework-agnostic agent runners that decouple durable execution from the agent framework (e.g., LangGraph, CrewAI). This means Catalyst supports probabilistic agent logic alongside deterministic replay, while Restate is optimized for deterministic, code-defined workflows.

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