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Disclaimer: I'm a co-founder of Temporal. Temporal has 3 types of activities: * local: executed in the same process as the orchestrator code. Many local activities can be executed locally before their results are sent to a backend server in a single RPC call. * task queue based: executed by a pool of worker processes that poll from the queue. This is the most flexible model as it supports flow control, priorities, fa…
Might not be par for the course for HN, but gotta drop a link with a light joke, with the background of the money grubbing guy (Temporal founder here) sucking up venture capital like vacuum cleaner who tries to argue he’s intellectually superior in a brag thread about his Company over a competitor (with significant OSS accomplishments) who is attempting to make the world a better place with a freely available primiti…
I certainly don't think I'm superior to them in any way and have great respect for the very capable team they are. We know each other personally. I even presented at the Flink conference while at Uber.
My message is that I'd prefer a more technical discussion of the merits of our products rather than simplified marketing attacks.