From Choreography to Durable Execution: Why Temporal Changes Everything
The Choreography Problem: Hope-Driven Development For years, we’ve built distributed systems using choreography—Service A fires an event into the void, hoping Service B hears it. Service B processes it and fires another event, hoping Service C is listening. When something fails (and it will), we’re left scrambling through logs across multiple services, trying to piece together what happened. This is hope-driven development, and it’s fundamentally broken. Enter Temporal and the concept of Durable Execution—a paradigm shift that replaces hope with guarantees. ...