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by teraku 2165 days ago
This looks awesome, but I don't understand what this has that airflow, prefect or luigi don't have?
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bbri06 2164 days ago
Scale, interactivity, and durability are certainly part of this discussion. You can use Cadence/Temporal for purposes you just really couldn't use Airflow for. For instance, you could implement this entire actor-based auction example from Akka with Cadence/Temporal https://doc.akka.io/docs/akka-enhancements/current/persisten... There is absolutely no way you could do that with Airflow.

To understand why Cadence is so useful, you have to go a bit beyond the traditional ETL scheduling usages IMO.

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ttsda 2165 days ago
In SWF/Durable Functions/Cadence/Temporal, The entire workflow is defined as (deterministic) code, which is orchestrated by the engine.
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teraku 2165 days ago
As as opposed to... having undeterministic code? Workflow as code is also the theme of airflow, luigi and prefect.
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firdaus 2165 days ago
With Temporal/Cadence you write (mostly) plain code to implement your business logic rather than using code to define DAGs.

This discussion has more on Airflow vs Cadence: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19732447

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