[bitexploder]

That is the real truth people are voicing when they say Temporal is heavy. They are really saying: Durable, reliable, distributed workloads are hard and it takes effort to manage! And that is true. I know of no systems that make that genuinely easy. It is a hard discipline. Maybe Temporal makes that harder than it should be, but I have no experience there.

There are no free lunches in this space. I have no idea how good or bad Temporal is since my usage is pretty small and isolated, but software rarely just works and impresses me and Temporal for my local machine orchestrating genuinely did. I think Netflix's conductor is another cool option, but I ended up with Temporal due to license.

[hmaxdml]

Have you looked into DBOS? Same thesis: durable and reliable workflows are hard to manage -- it just doesn't have to be as hard as Temporal makes it be :)

[bitexploder]

Have not. For my workflows this was fine. Good to keep in mind thoUgh. I don’t plan to manage a truly distributed system with it. Plus my only reason to do so is professional and we rolled our own system here due to our size solutions like DBOS or Temporal would not work well.