What is the main difference between a Workflow and an Activity?

Workflows handle deterministic orchestration logic and decision-making, while Activities handle non-deterministic external interactions like API calls or database writes.

Why is determinism important for Temporal workflows?

Temporal uses event history replay to restore state; if code is non-deterministic (e.g., using random numbers or system time), the replay will fail to match history.

When should I use the Saga pattern in my workflow?

Use the Saga pattern for distributed transactions that require 'all-or-nothing' semantics, allowing you to register and execute compensation logic if a step fails.

How does this skill help with activity failures?

It provides patterns for retry policies, backoff coefficients, and idempotency strategies to ensure activities can safely be retried until they succeed or fail permanently.

Workflow Orchestration Patterns

Name: Workflow Orchestration Patterns
Author: Activer007

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API 개발

Architects durable, fault-tolerant distributed systems using Temporal workflow orchestration and resilient design patterns.

This skill provides specialized guidance for designing robust distributed systems with Temporal, focusing on the critical separation between deterministic workflow logic and non-deterministic activities. It equips developers with implementation patterns for the Saga pattern, entity workflows, and fan-out/fan-in executions, ensuring long-running processes remain resilient across infrastructure failures. By enforcing determinism constraints and idempotency requirements, the skill helps build scalable microservice orchestrations that handle complex business logic and human-in-the-loop interactions with automatic state preservation.

주요 기능

01Implementation of the Saga pattern for distributed transactions

02Guidance on workflow determinism and activity idempotency

03Temporal-specific design patterns for distributed systems

04Entity workflow modeling for long-lived state management

05Strategies for failure recovery and activity heartbeating

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사용 사례

01Building multi-step payment systems with automatic rollbacks via the Saga pattern

02Orchestrating complex microservice interactions that span hours or days

03Automating infrastructure provisioning with built-in failure recovery and state persistence

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