Temporal
Durable execution platform for long-running workflows — workflows survive process crashes, retries, and timeouts without complex state management.
Why Temporal?
Long-running business processes (order fulfillment, multi-step payments) that must complete reliably
Replacing complex retry logic, dead-letter queues, and state machines with simple code
Workflows that span hours, days, or weeks and need human-in-the-loop steps
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Last 12 months
Tradeoffs & Caveats
Know before you commitSimple fire-and-forget background jobs — BullMQ or Inngest are lighter weight
Real-time streaming workloads — Temporal is for workflows, not event streams
Pricing
Free tier & paid plans
Open source self-host free
Temporal Cloud from $0.025 per action
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Repository and installation options
View on GitHub
github.com/temporalio/sdk-typescript
npm install @temporalio/client @temporalio/worker @temporalio/workflowpip install temporalioQuick Start
Copy and adapt to get going fast
import { Worker, NativeConnection } from '@temporalio/worker';
import { workflowFn } from './workflows';
const worker = await Worker.create({
connection: await NativeConnection.connect({ address: 'localhost:7233' }),
namespace: 'default',
taskQueue: 'my-queue',
workflowsPath: require.resolve('./workflows'),
activities: { greet: async (name) => `Hello, ${name}!` },
});
await worker.run();Community Notes
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