Temporal development and production features
Through a Temporal SDK, Temporal provides a wide range of features that enable developers to build applications that serve a wide range of use cases.
- Core application primitives: Develop and run your application with Workflows, Activities, and Workers.
- Testing suite: Each Temporal SDK comes with a testing suite that enables developers to test their applications as they would any other.
- Temporal Clients: Communicate with the Temporal Service to start your application, send it messages, cancel a business process, and more.
- Scheduled Workflows: Start a business process at a specific time or on a given time interval.
- Interrupt a Workflow: Cancel or terminate a business process (Workflow) that is already in progress and compensate for any steps already taken.
- Runtime safeguards: Prevent avoidable errors and issues from executing during runtime.
- Failure detection and mitigation: Detect failures with timeouts and configure automatic retries to mitigate them.
- Workflow message passing: Build responsive applications that react to events at runtime and enable data retrieval from ongoing Workflows.
- Versioning: Support multiple versions of your business logic for long-running business processes.
- Observability: List business process, view their state, and setup dashboards with metrics.
- Debugging: Surface errors and step through code to find issues.
- Data encryption: Transform data and protect the privacy of the users of your application.
- Throughput composability: Breakup business processes by data streams, team ownership, or other organization factors.
- Cloud Automation: Simplify cloud management and boost security with Temporal's Cloud Automation.
- Low Latency: Making your applications faster, more performant, and more efficient.
- Multi-tenancy: Enhances efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
For detailed information on Temporal feature release stages and criteria, see this Product Release Stages Guide.