Temporal: automation features and setup

Overview

Temporal is designed for cases where a long-running process must survive failures, restarts, and waits between steps without losing state. You write the process in code, and the system saves its progress. It is suitable for billing, shipping, or a process waiting for external approval. Before choosing it, make sure someone can maintain the infrastructure and knows how to recover a stuck run without duplicating an action.

Features

• Durable execution of long-running processes
• State preservation across steps and failures
• Writing processes in code instead of only in a diagram

Business uses

• An order process that waits for payment and supplier approval
• A run that resumes after a service outage without duplicating a charge

Getting started

• Run a short official example in a development environment.
• Write a process with a wait and an intentional failure.
• Check run recovery and that a write action is not duplicated.

What to check

• A team is needed to operate stuck runs and process versions.
• External actions must be safe to retry.