Temporal is a durable execution platform designed to build reliable and scalable applications. It allows developers to write code as if failures don't exist, ensuring that applications never lose state, even when systems break down.
Key Features:
- Durable Execution: Automatically captures state at every step, enabling recovery from any failure.
- Workflows: Allows developers to define business logic as code, which can be recovered, replayed, or paused at any point.
- Activities: Functions that automatically retry and recover seamlessly, handling API failures and network timeouts.
- Open Source: MIT-licensed and backed by a thriving developer community.
Use Cases:
- AI and Large Language Models: Resilient and repeatable AI workflows, from model training to data preparation.
- Humans-in-the-Loop: Clean orchestration around human input.
- Compensating Patterns (Saga): Simplified Saga implementation.
- Long-Running Workflows: Support for workflows that run for days, weeks, or months.
- Order Fulfillment: Ensures orders keep moving even if services fail.
- CI/CD: Reliable deployments with clean retries and rollbacks.
