Avoid the complexity and operational overhead of building your own stack to manage failures, network outages, flaky endpoints, long-running processes and more, to ensure your workflows never fail.
👋 Greetings, Product Hunt community! I’m @maximfateev the Co-Founder and CTO of Temporal.
Temporal lets developers build failure-proof applications in the programming language of your choice. API timeouts, network outages, and server crashes are abstracted away so your code stays laser-focused on its intended function. Retries, state management, long-running processes, and more, are handled for you — automatically.
Today, I’m excited to launch Temporal Cloud, the managed service version of our popular open source framework. We already run millions of Temporal workflows for high reliability and high scalability workloads with customers like OpenAI, Nvidia, Cloudflare, and Netflix, and now we’re ready to offer our self-serve offering to the public.
Among others, we’ve seen Temporal used for all sorts of interesting use cases, including:
💰 Payment Processing
🤖 AI / ML Orchestration
🛒 Order Management & Bookings
👩🦰 Lifecycle Management
💻 Infrastructure Management and CI/CD
I launched the first version of this platform as Tech Lead of Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) in 2004. Following that, I joined with Samar Abbas at Amazon in 2009 to create Amazon Simple Workflow Service (SWF). Samar then applied those learnings at Microsoft, creating the Durable Task Framework at Azure, and then at Uber, we reunited once more to create Cadence, which we open sourced as Temporal.
That means that Temporal benefits from over 20 years of learnings from AWS, Microsoft, and Uber!
My mission is to free developers from writing plumbing logic. Engineering teams should focus on writing code that drives business value, not code that covers their asses. Worse, over time, these mundane projects slow developer momentum and inhibit risk taking. If you want to unlock your “10x developers”, you need Temporal to do that grunt work.
I’m so confident in the transformation your team will experience with Temporal, that for a limited time, we’re offering $1,000 in credits to try Temporal Cloud.
Join over 350K active Temporal developers in building failure-proof applications.
We’d love to hear any of your feedback on what we’ve built, as well as any unique use cases you might have.
Leave a comment here, and then introduce yourself in our 14K+ developer-strong community on Slack: https://t.mp/slack
Super interesting tool! I will definitely use it next time I need to code something event driven 🔥
Durable execution of Temporal is one of the best tools I've seen for developer productivity in a long time!
Big congrats on the launch, @maximfateev ! Temporal Cloud sounds like a game-changer for simplifying complex workflows—love the focus on reliability and handling failures seamlessly. How does it manage scaling for really high-traffic systems or processes with a lot of dependencies? Excited to see how it keeps everything running smoothly even in the trickiest scenarios!
Congratulations @mike_partin1 and team on the launch! This product simplifies managing failures and network issues greatly.
This is amazing developer infra I had never heard of ... whose legacy spans Amazon, Microsoft, and Uber devops teams.
If you want to focus on writing code that provides business value rather than mere plumbing logic, Temporal, and now Temporal Cloud, is worth checking out.
Imagine being able to outsource all that plumbing code that handles API misses and retries, service unavailability, and the other annoying quirks of software development. How much more flow state could you obtain?
That's the entire purpose of Temporal. Check it out!
Love the demo video linked above. Technical and descriptive. I wish all product launches had something like this. Nice job to the Temporal team.
Interesting to see this here now. I integrated temporal into our product close to 2 years ago. And it’s been a great tool for us to monitor critical workflows around core features, building out background tasks, and ensuring that jobs get completed even when they face the fallacies.
Great product, unfortunately it’s a bit too expensive for bootstrappers, which is disappointing, but great product for startups with runway and bigger orgs. 🫶🎉
Congrats on launching Temporal Cloud! 🎉 How do you handle complex error handling and retries in your workflows?
Sounds really really cool. What do you use for high availability? I will take a look now definitely! 🤩
Congratulations on your launch, @maximfateev and Team! Temporal Cloud seems really useful to improve stability and consistency! I wish you all the best!
Intriguing product promise. What are some awesome projects out there in the wild that has been built with this? like top3?
Congrats on the launch, always so exciting to go out with new product releases.
Curious, can you say more about how AI companies are using Temporal Cloud to improve AI in production?
I've been following Temporal for a while since a good friend from college joined them earlier this year. I remember one of the key benefits of using Temporal is that if the server running your program suddenly stops, the program can continue once the server recovers.
Solving this problem is challenging, and I’m confident Temporal has the best team to make it happen.
Congratulations on launching Temporal Cloud to more companies through open source!
Been using Temporal for years now. Can't do without it anymore.
Congrats on the launch!
How can we use Temporal to integrate with legacy systems that aren't viable to modernise?
