What is Temporal?
Temporal is a platform designed for building invincible applications. It manages failures, network outages, and long-running processes, ensuring the reliable execution of workflows.
By abstracting away the complexities of distributed systems, Temporal allows developers to focus on core business logic rather than infrastructure concerns. The platform provides durable execution, eliminating the need for extensive recovery logic, callbacks, and timers. It offers comprehensive visibility into workflow execution, recording progress and state for improved error analysis and performance optimization.
Features
- Durable Execution: Ensures workflows are fault-tolerant and resilient to failures.
- Failure Handling: Automatically manages failures, network outages, and flaky endpoints.
- Scalability: Simplifies the development of scalable distributed systems.
- Visibility: Records every execution, its progress and state.
- Open Source: Built in the open and released under the MIT license.
- Polyglot Development: Supports multiple programming languages.
Use Cases
- Order Management
- Payment processing
- Infrastructure pipelines
- Customer on/offboarding
- Logistics Management
- Applied AI
FAQs
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What is included in the base fee?
The base fee includes a certain number of Actions, Active Storage, and Retained Storage, depending on the selected plan (Essentials, Business, or Enterprise). -
What is an Action and how can I estimate how many I need?
Actions are workflow building blocks that measure billable operations between your application and Temporal Cloud. -
Do you offer any discounts or commitments?
Yes, Temporal offers volume discounts and commitments for larger usage volumes.
