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

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

How does the Saga pattern help with distributed transactions?

It manages multi-step processes by registering compensation actions for every step, allowing the system to roll back changes in reverse order if a failure occurs.

Why is determinism critical for Temporal workflows?

Temporal uses event sourcing to replay workflows; if the code is non-deterministic (e.g., using random numbers or system time), the state cannot be accurately reconstructed after a failure.

When should I avoid using workflow orchestration?

Orchestration is typically overkill for simple CRUD operations, stateless request/response APIs, or high-volume real-time data streaming tasks.

Workflow Orchestration Patterns

Name: Workflow Orchestration Patterns
Author: gwickman

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API 개발

Designs durable, resilient distributed workflows using Temporal patterns for reliable microservice orchestration.

This skill provides comprehensive guidance for architecting distributed systems using Temporal, focusing on the critical separation between deterministic workflow logic and non-deterministic activities. It equips developers with proven patterns like Sagas for distributed transactions, entity-based workflows for state management, and robust error-handling strategies to ensure system reliability. By enforcing determinism constraints and idempotency requirements, it helps teams build long-running, fault-tolerant processes that can survive infrastructure failures and maintain consistent state across complex service interactions.

주요 기능

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02Provides strategies for long-lived entity workflows and parallel fan-out/fan-in execution.

03Implements the Saga pattern for distributed transactions with automated compensation logic.

04Enforces determinism constraints to ensure reliable workflow replay and state persistence.

05Architects clear separation between orchestration logic (Workflows) and external interactions (Activities).

06Guidance on idempotency, retry policies, and heartbeating for resilient service communication.

사용 사례

01Building complex, multi-step e-commerce checkout and order fulfillment systems.

02Orchestrating infrastructure provisioning and CI/CD pipelines across multiple cloud services.

03Managing long-running business processes like user onboarding or human-in-the-loop approvals.

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