[mfateev]

Did you click on temporal.io?

It is hard to describe as it is a new way to build distributed applications that doesn't have a commonly agreed name yet.

[dragonwriter]

> It is hard to describe as it is a new way to build distributed applications that doesn't have a commonly agreed name yet.

Seems to be a fairly straightforward, minimal (which can be good; that's not a criticism) workflow engine.

[tsurkoprt]

new ? really ? this has been around since 1995

[mfateev]

Great, show me a single product (besides AWS SWF and Azure durable Task Framework) that has the programming model of Temporal. For example, which product allows to write production code like this that survives any process failures:

  public void execute(String customerId) {
    activities.sendWelcomeEmail(customerId);
    try {
      boolean trialPeriod = true;
      while (true) {
        Workflow.sleep(Duration.ofDays(30));
        activities.chargeMonthlyFee(customerId);
        if (trialPeriod) {
          activities.sendEndOfTrialEmail(customerId);
          trialPeriod = false;
        } else {
          activities.sendMonthlyChargeEmail(customerId);
        }
      }
    } catch (CancellationException e) {
      activities.processSubscriptionCancellation(customerId);
      activities.sendSorryToSeeYouGoEmail(customerId);
    }
  }