Temporal raises 19M from Sequoia – durable microservices orchestration

Temporal raises 19M from Sequoia – durable microservices orchestration(techcrunch.com)

17 points by rylandgold 5 years ago | 3 comments

assaflavie 5 years ago |

Distributed programming is a means to an end, not a goal. If you had a computer with infinite cpu and ram and it could never crash and be geographically close to every customer, you would just use that and build your system on it as a dreaded “monolith”. Much simpler to grok such systems. Much easier to debug and monitor.

That’s what temporal enables.

andrewingram 5 years ago |

Please correct me if i'm way off base, but at the mental model level, it seems like the key difference between this and Zenaton is:

* Support for multiple languages (Zenaton used to, but doubled-down on Node)

* It runs on your own infrastructure (with Zenaton the code runs on your own machines, but the scheduler runs in their systems)

* A deeper focus on resilience (hard to quantify whether Zenaton has this, but it's definitely not emphasised as heavily)

geomagilles 5 years ago | |

Hi Andrew, I'm Zenaton's cofounder and you are right Temporal and Zenaton follow the same "workflow as code" pattern. I've written an article recently about it (https://medium.com/swlh/code-is-the-best-dsl-for-building-wo...) - Note that Zenaton is closed now (not enough commercial traction) and I'm working on a new open-source (well Common clauses) implementation of a workflow-as-code engine - similar to Temporal - but with different technical choices (cf. https://medium.com/@gillesbarbier/building-an-event-driven-o...)