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Temporal is the open source microservice orchestration platform for writing durable workflows as code.

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Temporal SDKs

Workflows as Code.

Write, reuse, test, and migrate dynamic asynchronous logic with idiomatic SDKs. Use software engineering best practices, whether you are automating Infra Provisioning, wrangling a Data pipeline, or even creating an SDK or DSL to offer Workflows on your own platform!

Java

TypeScript

PHP

func PaymentWorkflow(ctx workflow.Context, userID string, intervals []int) error {
  // Send reminder emails, e.g. after 1, 7, and 30 days
  for _, interval := range intervals {
    _ = workflow.Sleep(ctx, days(interval)) // Sleep for days!
    _ = workflow.ExecuteActivity(ctx, SendEmail, userID).Get(ctx, nil) 
     // Activities have timeouts, and will be retried by default!
  }
  // ...
 }

Workflows orchestrate the execution of Activities, persisting every state change and executed on a scalable fleet of Workers!

Workflows can block for any length of time, condition, or human signal and seamlessly resume from any failure!

Activities have durable timeouts and retries by default!

View Language SDK docs

Temporal Server

Reliability on Rails

Open source server that scales from a single Go binary to large clusters handling hundreds of millions of Workflows. Pluggable persistence with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Cassandra. Run locally, provide as an internal platform, or use Temporal Cloud!

Temporal Server docs

Temporal DevTools

Observability & Control

Temporal Web UI provides end-to-end observability and metadata search. Temporal CLI (tctl) lets you query and administer your Cluster. Make the "distributed systems murder mystery" boring again!

Temporal DevTools docs

Simple building blocks,
hundreds of uses cases

Microservices Orchestration

Tame your exploding Microservices Hairball. Standardize retries, timeouts, and cancellation and test/version the same way you write all your other software! Examples: Snapchat, Checkr, Doordash

Distributed Transactions

No more double spends or dropped payments. Reliability, consistency, failure compensation, long running operations, and distributed transactions for your most critical transfers. Examples: Coinbase, Box.

Infrastructure Provisioning

Whether you are implementing CI/CD pipelines or creating managed clouds, write your own control plane in languages you know best. Examples: HashiCorp, Datadog, Stripe.

Monitoring

Reliable polling that is as simple or sophisticated as you need, at massive scale. Imagine 100s of millions parallel cron jobs that survive any machine failure.

Long Running Processes

Distributed Cron, at massive scale. Reliable polling that is as simple or sophisticated as you need. Run 100s of millions parallel cron jobs that survive any machine failure.

Data Pipelines

Run millions of data processing jobs in parallel. Track to their individual statuses, easily scale up and down workers, and decimate downtime. Examples: Descript, Zebra Medical Vision, Airbyte

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“HashiCorp needed to build long-running, reliable, fault-tolerant tasks for the HashiCorp Cloud Platform.
Temporal’s technology satisfied all of these requirements out of the box and allowed our developers to focus on business logic.
Without Temporal’s technology, we would’ve spent a significant amount of time rebuilding Temporal and would’ve very likely done a worse job.”

Mitchell Hashimoto

Co-founder, Hashicorp

“ Developer happiness has increased. Thinking in terms of workflows and activities has clarified our product and allowed us to share workflow components with different teams. ”