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At work we use Temporal and ended up using a dedicated workflow and signals to do distributed locking. Working well so far and the implementation is rather simp

At work we use Temporal and ended up using a dedicated workflow and signals to do distributed locking. Working well so far and the implementation is rather simple, relying on Temporal’s facilities to do the distributed parts of the lock.

robertlagrant 2y ago
I'm keen to use Temporal, but I've heard it can be flaky. In your experience has it worked well?
- calmoo 2y ago
  Rock solid in my experience and kind of a game changer. I’m surprised it’s not more widespread in large orgs.
  - Icathian 2y ago
    We use it a ton at my shop for internal things like release rollouts. Fairly big tech company, and same experience. It's an excellent product.
wslh 2y ago
I just discovered Temporal, and I have to say thank you! From what I've seen so far, it seems like the holy grail for workflows, offering very clear high-level task management over complex infrastructure. Is Temporal unique in this space, or are there other alternatives of similar caliber? Given that it was spun off from Uber and is used by top vendors, it sounds like it’s been thoroughly battle-tested.
- refset 2y ago
  DBOS [0] is outwardly similar although it's much younger. IIUC, internally DBOS is able to be more efficient and support lower latencies than Temporal because of the way it can push work down into Postgres stored procedures. [0] https://www.dbos.dev/ https://www.dbos.dev/
amievil 2y ago
Sounds interesting, could you elaborate a bit? I am interested in building something similar using temporal.