The Distributed Machine

Temporal is a game-changing technology that simplifies the development of distributed applications. It provides durable execution, ensuring strong reliability guarantees for business logic and reducing the need for sprawling microservices. The author argues that Temporal represents the next step in computing machines' natural progression, transforming the cloud into a new kind of machine beyond physical or virtual ones: a distributed machine. This is achieved by abstracting distributed processing away from applications, enabling them to run across multiple machines as if they were a single higher-level distributed machine. Temporal provides a solution that lets developers just run their program across arbitrarily many machines, picking up from exactly the same line of code where the former machine stopped making progress.