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Temporal is completely above and beyond Asyncio. It's a full scheduling of work and queues that's cross-machine, cross-language, and very transparent.

A workflow is the code that handles only deterministic actions and calls activities.

Activities are functions that do anything you want, typically affecting other systems with network or file calls.

A worker is the running process connected to Temporal with registered workflows & activities for it to pass work to.

I'm doing a lot of work with alert handling and provisioning systems using Temporal. Temporal in two minutes is a great video explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-18XztyN6c