5 engineers on Hacker News describe using Temporal first-hand: 0 endorse it, 0 regret it, 3 are mixed.
“having run it in prod for over a year - poorly designed, slow and ridicliously heavy infra wise. From a Developer standpoint, the SDK is quite nice though.”
mixed · production · 1 yr · temporal_thr123 · 2026-05-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Temporal is a great tool, covering most of the use cases, but for long-running execution, solution around it is starting to be very painful”
mixed · production · _alphageek · 2026-05-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Overall, we don't regret adopting it, but if we had a time machine we wouldn't do it again.”
mixed · production · 015a · 2024-05-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have a version of "Cloudflare OS" running in production, using Temporal as the orchestration and MicroVMs for the sandboxing.”
neutral · production · nullpoint420 · 2026-10-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we're starting to use Temporal.io for queued-job type stuff over a homegrown queueing system”
neutral · production · iand675 · 2024-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?