Overview

Temporal is an open-source durable execution platform that revolutionizes how developers build distributed applications. By abstracting away the complexities of distributed systems, it allows teams to focus on core business logic while ensuring applications remain resilient and scalable.

Key Features

• Durable Execution: Automatically handles failures, network outages, and flaky endpoints
• Simplified Development: Eliminates need for recovery logic, callbacks, and manual timers
• Built-in Reliability: Reduces system failures by 10-100X through fault tolerance
• Complete Visibility: Records and tracks every execution, progress, and state
• Language Agnostic: Supports polyglot development with multiple SDK options
• Open Source: Released under MIT license with strong community support

Use Cases

• Order Management & Payment Processing
• Infrastructure Pipeline Management
• Customer Onboarding/Offboarding
• Logistics Management
• Applied AI Workflows
• Event-Driven Architectures
• SAGA & Distributed Transactions
• Batch Processing
• Scheduled Jobs & Cron Operations

Technical Capabilities

Infrastructure Features

• Distributed system management
• Automatic retry handling
• State management
• Error propagation
• System testing support

Deployment Options

• Self-hosted open source deployment
• Temporal Cloud with 11+ regions
• Serverless scalability
• Pay-as-you-go pricing model

Integration

Temporal seamlessly integrates with existing development ecosystems, supporting:

• Multiple runtime environments
• Various test frameworks
• Continuous integration systems
• Popular web frameworks
• Different programming languages and SDKs