workflow-orchestration-patterns

To design resilient distributed workflows with Temporal, you build durable workflows that automatically persist state and recover from failures, enforcing determinism in workflows and idempotency in activities for reliable state management.

The saga pattern implements distributed transactions with compensation logic for rollback. It coordinates microservices like inventory and payment, ensuring reliable execution by triggering compensating actions if individual services fail.

You orchestrate parallel tasks in distributed systems by utilizing fan-out/fan-in patterns to execute multiple activities concurrently. This approach coordinates complex business processes efficiently while maintaining workflow durability.

Use entity workflows to model long-lived entities as stateful workflows during microservice orchestration. This approach is ideal for long-running processes requiring durable state management and reliable error recovery across distributed systems.

Yes, you can integrate async callbacks into durable workflows to handle external systems or human approvals. This ensures long-running processes pause reliably and resume automatically upon receiving the callback response.

Enforcing determinism in workflow orchestration patterns limits workflows to pure logic, prohibiting non-deterministic operations. All side effects and external interactions must be isolated into idempotent activities to guarantee reliable state recovery.