Temporal Has a Free API: The Durable Workflow...

Your order processing pipeline has 7 steps. Step 5 fails because a third-party API is down. Now you need retry logic, compensation logic for steps 1-4, a dead letter queue, and state tracking. You've just invented a worse version of Temporal. What Temporal Actually Does Temporal is an open-source durable execution platform. You write workflows as normal code (if/else, loops, function calls), and Temporal guarantees they complete — even if servers crash, networks fail, or processes restart. Every