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Media processing workflows

What's this blog post about?

This post discusses how Temporal, an open-source workflow engine, can be used to build a robust solution for a media processing problem that requires high reliability and fault tolerance. The problem involves obtaining sensor data from various IoT vendors, transforming the data, and making it available internally within a company. The post covers how Temporal handles failure modes in a developer-friendly way, provides testing frameworks, and allows for easy scalability as more workflows are triggered. It also highlights key concepts relevant to a media processing workflow such as Activity Options, the Session API, and visibility into workflow executions.

Company
Temporal

Date published
July 19, 2021

Author(s)
Nir Padmanabhan

Word count
3024

Hacker News points
None found.

Language
English


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