Temporal Has a Free API: Never Write Another Retry Loop or State Machine

Your payment flow has 7 steps, 3 retry policies, 2 timeout handlers, and a compensating transaction. Stop building that with if-else. Use Temporal. What Is Temporal? Temporal is a durable execution platform. You write workflows as normal code — Temporal makes them survive crashes, scale horizontally, and run for days/months/years. // workflow.ts — this is durable. Crashes, restarts, deploys can't break it. import { proxyActivities , sleep } from ' @temporalio/workflow ' const { chargePayment , sendEmail , createShipment , updateInventory } = proxyActivities ({ startToCloseTimeout : ' 30s ' , retry : { maximumAttempts : 3 } }) export async function orderWorkflow ( order : Order ): Promise < void > { // Step 1: Charge payment const paymentId = await chargePayment ( order ) // Step 2: Update inventory await updateInventory ( order . items ) // Step 3: Wait for warehouse confirmation (could be hours) await sleep ( ' 2 hours ' ) // Step 4: Create shipment const trackingId = await createShip