Temporal
Durable workflow execution platform
About
Founded in 2019 by Maxim Fateev and Samar Abbas, the creators of Uber's Cadence workflow engine, Temporal provides an open-source durable execution platform that guarantees application workflows run to completion even through infrastructure failures, process crashes, and network outages. Developers write workflows as ordinary code and Temporal handles retries, state persistence, and distributed coordination transparently. Customers including Snap, Netflix, HashiCorp, Box, and Datadog use Temporal to eliminate the complexity of building reliable distributed systems. In 2025, Temporal surpassed 1,000 paying cloud customers and reached a $5B valuation in its Series D, driven by rapid adoption among AI companies using it for long-running AI pipeline orchestration. The open-source project has been adopted by hundreds of thousands of developers globally.
Products
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Temporal Platform
— Platform for building applications with durable execution that never lose state even when failures occur.
Customer sectors: platform engineering, startups, enterprise developers
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Temporal Cloud
— Hosted Temporal Service that manages state persistence, retries, and task queues, allowing developers to focus on business logic.
Customer sectors: devops engineers, enterprise developers, startups
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Temporal Open-Source Service
— Open-source Temporal Service you can self-host to persist application state and automate retry logic.
Customer sectors: platform engineering, open-source developers, devops engineers
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Temporal SDKs
— Native SDKs for multiple languages to write durable, fault-tolerant workflows as code.
Customer sectors: software developers, backend engineers, platform engineering
Market research & competitive positioning
Source-backed TAM / SAM / SOM sizing, displacement analysis, and an interactive peer positioning map for Temporal — available to members.
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