Distributed programming is a means to an end, not a goal. If you had a computer with infinite cpu and ram and it could never crash and be geographically close to every customer, you would just use that and build your system on it as a dreaded “monolith”. Much simpler to grok such systems. Much easier to debug and monitor.
Hi Andrew, I'm Zenaton's cofounder and you are right Temporal and Zenaton follow the same "workflow as code" pattern. I've written an article recently about it (https://medium.com/swlh/code-is-the-best-dsl-for-building-wo...) - Note that Zenaton is closed now (not enough commercial traction) and I'm working on a new open-source (well Common clauses) implementation of a workflow-as-code engine - similar to Temporal - but with different technical choices (cf. https://medium.com/@gillesbarbier/building-an-event-driven-o...)
That’s what temporal enables.