If you’ve used word processing tools for a long time, you remember the reflexive action of hitting the “save” keyboard shortcut — the fear of losing your work, cursing out loud and bemoaning the amazing work that you just lost. Everything is saved in the state you left it and you can move on. Samar Abbas and his team at workflow orchestration engine Temporal want to bring this concept to your enterprise workflow.
At Uber, engineers spent lots of time stitching together low-level queues, databases and https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/durable/durable-functions-timers?tabs=csharp to build resilience into their applications.
This is an example of when a system like Temporal can help big time — it even feels magical.