workflow-orchestration-patterns

Workflow orchestration coordinates long-running processes across microservices using deterministic patterns. You need it for distributed transactions, order processing, and provisioning scenarios where resilience and eventual consistency are required.

Design durable Temporal workflows by creating a master workflow that coordinates activities with explicit compensation logic. Separate orchestration logic from external interactions to ensure determinism and reliable state recovery.

The best orchestration patterns for distributed transactions include Saga, Fan-Out/Fan-In, and Async Callback. These patterns provide robust state management, retries, and compensating actions to ensure eventual consistency across services.

Handle failure recovery in Temporal workflows by implementing compensating actions within Saga patterns. This ensures robust state management and automatic retries, maintaining eventual consistency if an activity fails.

Yes, you can use Temporal for service provisioning and data pipelines. Deterministic workflow orchestration provides the reliable coordination and state management required to execute these complex, long-running processes successfully.

Workflow orchestration requires separating orchestration logic from activities to maintain determinism. This separation ensures that workflow state can be reliably recovered and replayed without side effects from external service interactions.