[acjohnson55]

Before I'd ever heard of the concept of a "workflow engine", I looked into step functions, thinking that was exactly the solution I was looking for. But when I started studying them, it was apparent to me that they suffer from the exact same problem of fragmentation of logical processes. In my ideal world, the breaks between steps in a process look much more like `await`s in a process that is modeled by a single function, and not like a hard split between steps.

[mfateev]

This is exactly the model Temporal provides. In languages that support await it is used. In languages like Java and Go normal blocking calls are used.