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cadence
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hexclave
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DurableTask
Discontinued Durable Task Framework allows users to write long running persistent workflows in C# using the async/await capabilities. [GET https://api.github.com/repos/Azure/durabletask: 403 - Repository access blocked]
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Flowable (V6)
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pigsty
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gq
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- SQLite is all you need for durable workflows
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Just Use Postgres for Durable Workflows
Since I'm in a ranting mode -- here's a good example: you're limited to _ONE_ IO per shard in the history service:
https://github.com/temporalio/temporal/blob/e22e6304b3c4a409...
https://github.com/temporalio/temporal/blob/e22e6304b3c4a409...
Temporal does a crazy amount of database operations and all of these are behind that mutex.
Oh, and you can't change the shard count on existing clusters.
Great stuff.
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Temporal Pricing Teardown 2026
GitHub: github.com/temporalio/temporal
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5 Production Stacks for Live Data Ingestion at Scale (Without Getting Blocked)
Repository: Trigger.dev · Temporal Documentation: Trigger.dev docs · Temporal docs License: Varies by engine (Trigger.dev: Apache 2.0; Temporal: MIT) Free Tier: Varies by engine — hosted usage tiers, self-hosted deployments, and managed-cloud limits all differ Best for: Any ingest workload where “what failed and why” needs to be answerable, upstreams are flaky, or you’re running at a scale where silent failures are unacceptable.
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Does Postgres Scale?
Temporal employee here. I'm very surprised by your comment.
It's true that we recently had a Series D and that VC firms recognize the value of what we do. The Temporal Server software is 100% open source (MIT license: https://github.com/temporalio/temporal/blob/main/LICENSE). It's totally free and you don't even need to fill out a registration form, just download precompiled binaries from GitHub or clone the repo and build it yourself. You can self-host it anywhere you like, no restrictions on scale or commercial usage. We offer SaaS (Temporal Cloud), which customers can choose as an alternative self-hosting, based on their needs. The migration path is bi-directional, so not a trap by any definition.
Regarding AI, Temporal is widely used in that space, but that does not negate the thousands of other companies that use Temporal for other things (e.g., order management systems, customer onboarding, loan origination, money movement, cloud infrastructure management, and so on). In fact, our growth in the AI market came about because companies who were already using Temporal for other use cases realized that it also solved the problems they encountered in their AI projects.
And to your last point, we've made dozens of enhancements to the product (here's a small sample: https://temporal.io/blog/categories/product-news). I'd encourage you to follow the news from next week's Replay conference (https://replay.temporal.io/) because we'll be announcing many more.
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Orchestration vs Choreography: Two Ways to Build Clinical Speech-to-Text
Temporal docs: https://docs.temporal.io/
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Temporal Workflow Engine: The Reliability Layer Your Distributed System Is Missing [2026 Guide]
The architecture lets you scale workers independently, deploy new workflow versions without downtime, and run the Temporal Service either self-hosted or as Temporal Cloud (their managed offering). The project has roughly 19,000 GitHub stars on the temporalio/temporal repository, which tells you the community traction is real.
- Temporal – Durable Execution Platform
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I Love You, Redis, but I'm Leaving You for SolidQueue
i’m not associated with temporal, no does the link above have any referrer nonsense in there. it’s not wrong to point to a proper resource that can explain and demonstrate my argument better than a couple of words could. temporal is open source[0] so maybe a github link would have been more palatable?
[0]: https://github.com/temporalio/temporal
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Temporal Workflow Orchestration: Building Reliable Agentic AI Systems
Temporal Documentation
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temporalio/temporal is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of temporal is Go.
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