[ttsda]

In SWF/Durable Functions/Cadence/Temporal, The entire workflow is defined as (deterministic) code, which is orchestrated by the engine.

[teraku]

As as opposed to... having undeterministic code? Workflow as code is also the theme of airflow, luigi and prefect.

[firdaus]

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