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

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Temporal SDKs

No more JSON or YAML

Easily write, reuse, test, version, and migrate dynamic asynchronous logic with idiomatic SDKs (Go, Java, TS, PHP). Use software engineering best practices, whether you are writing Infra Provisioning automation, wrangling a Data pipeline, or even building a domain specific Workflow Engine!

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, which are particular tasks in your business logic

Activities can sleep for days, and can continue right where they left off

Activities have timeouts, and will be retried 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

Make the "distributed systems murder mystery" as predictable as Scooby Doo, with a Web UI that provides end-to-end visibility and metadata search, and a CLI to query and administer your Cluster!

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. ”