Temporal
Durable execution for long-running workflows
- Open source
- Orchestration
What it is
Temporal runs workflows as durable code: each step’s result is persisted to an event history, so a process survives crashes, deploys and multi-day waits by replaying deterministically from that history. Non-deterministic work — API calls, model requests — is isolated into activities with their own retry and timeout policies. Agents built on it inherit failure recovery instead of hand-rolling it.
Best for
Multi-step agent or business workflows that must survive process restarts and stay alive for hours or days.
Where it falls short
It brings a server, worker fleet and a determinism discipline that is real operational weight for anything short-lived.
Characteristics
- durable-execution
- retries
- event-history
- long-running
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