Temporal Reviews

Name: Temporal
Brand: Temporal Technologies
Rating: 4 (12 reviews)

4.4 out of 5

12 reviews
91% willing to recommend

What is Temporal?

Temporal delivers durable execution. It abstracts away the complexity of building scalable distributed systems and lets you keep focus on what matters – delivering reliable systems, faster. It allows you to avoid coding for infrastructure nuances and their inevitable failures.
Temporal eliminates recovery logic, callbacks, and timers from your code so you can spend more time building features.
Temporal makes your software durable and fault tolerant by default, reducing failures by 10-100X.
Temporal records every execution, its progress and state, providing new insights into errors and app performance.

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Temporal is the #10 ranked solution in top Process Automation solutions. PeerSpot users give Temporal an average rating of 8.8 out of 10. Temporal is most commonly compared to Camunda: Temporal vs Camunda. Temporal is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 70% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 29% of all views.

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Featured reviews

AbhishekDash

Senior Software Engineer at A.P. Moller - Maersk

Temporal focus on developers rather than business users. In contrast to older workflow orchestration engines like Camunda, which are more business-oriented and strongly emphasize UI and workflow authoring, Temporal is geared toward developers. It provides extensive capabilities for building complex workflows. A standout feature of Temporal is its handling of long-running workflows, a significant advantage over many other solutions. Temporal excels in managing distributed transactions and application state durability, especially in microservice environments where transactions might fail due to network issues. Temporal simplifies these challenges by managing retries, fail-safes, and circuit breakers. As a result, developers don't need to implement these features manually; Temporal handles them implicitly, though it also allows for tuning based on specific needs.

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Robin Shaw

Senior Data Engineer at Ernst & Young

The project I was working on was an AI project. We used to bring data from different sources using Temporal and put it into Elasticsearch. We would then take data from Elasticsearch, implement some AI logic on it, and insert it back into Elasticsearch. AI logic was implemented in Python codes, and our Temporal job was to do the calculations using Python codes and dump the data back into Elasticsearch. I suggest not using Temporal if your product is vital because if you are stuck somewhere, you will hardly get any resources. You will have to spend a lot of time to find out some functionality. Temporal has very limited documentation. If we have some POCs that are not so vital, then we can use Temporal to check something. I was able to do some basic things. However, you will find very little documentation or examples if you want to implement some big things. You must spend a lot of time understanding the functionality or connecting with the Temporal team to understand it. It is easy for a beginner to learn to use the solution for the first time. A new user may take around 15 days to one month to understand workflows. I also took around one month to understand the tool and then try to implement it. Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.

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Tural Mahmudov

Senior Software Engineer at LuftBlick OG

We use the product in our environment to manage a complex data pipeline for our highly data-intensive virtual operating system. Our system processes continuous data flows from instruments worldwide that collect stratospheric weather data. This data undergoes multiple conversions through several…

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Valuable Features

"The initial setup is easy."
"The tool is easy for a beginner to learn. The documentation covers activities, workflows, workers, servers, and more. While more examples could be beneficial, the existing resources are good enough to help you get started. There are also YouTube videos available that can provide additional context. The Slack community for Temporal is very active and helpful, similar to Stack Overflow, where you can find answers to a wide range of questions from basic to advanced levels. If you have a unique question, the community is responsive and provides knowledgeable support."
"The solution's most valuable features include its ability to simplify the management of complex workflows, improve system resilience and fault tolerance, and reduce the need for extensive boilerplate code."

Room for Improvement

"Sometimes it scales kind of badly, but it depends on the process of our products."
"One area where I think Temporal could improve is its dashboard, particularly in event tracking. Currently, the dashboard doesn't show a time-based view of events, meaning it doesn't display when an event started or went through the retry process. If this feature could be added in a future release, it would significantly enhance monitoring capabilities. Other than that, Temporal's overall performance is quite impressive, and we're confident we can migrate to the Temporal workflow."
"One area for the product improvement is the learning curve."

Pricing

"The savings weren't as big as we initially expected, but they were pretty great from a developer's perspective."
"It is worth the price."
"The tool is open source under the MIT license, so there are no hidden fees. You can freely use everything on their GitHub and Docker images."

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