This blog does a good job of explaining it in plain english imo: https://docs.temporal.io/blog/charles-zedlewski-why-i-joined-temporal https://docs.temporal.io/

This blog does a good job of explaining it in plain english imo: https://docs.temporal.io/blog/charles-zedlewski-why-i-joined-temporal https://docs.temporal.io/blog/charles-zedlewski-why-i-joined... ctrl + F to here "Temporal is a new kind of platform. It’s not a database, cache, queue, or a means to run your code. It’s a runtime for distributed applications that transparently manages their state at any scope and scale. By externalizing state to a generalized platform like Temporal, application teams get to outsource the majority of cross-cutting concerns presented by cloud applications. In doing so, applications become" if you dont want to read the whole thing