An Intellyx Brain Candy Brief
Temporal resolves time based dependency challenges among multiple independent functions in a distributed execution flow.
It’s a backend service hosted in the cloud with SDKs for application developers. Customers pay based on compute and storage consumption.
Dependency challenges Temporal resolves include: transactional coordination across disconnected microservices (using SAGAs for compensation), communication issues that cause failures in request/reply interactions (using event message persistence), and recovering lost application state and reconciling conflicting updates (using event message replay).
Temporal uses an event log in a database to preserve state for each function for a workflow or finite state machine execution.
Many functions have dependencies that cannot be execute at the same time. Temporal ensures coordinated activities execute correctly as if they did execute at the same time, exposing a durable execution abstraction for developers.
Temporal is an open source project released under the MIT License, including the hosted service. Temporal monetizes the open source project by hosting the backend cloud service.
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