https://backend.how/tags/temporal/ Recent content in Temporal on How It Works Hugo en pg@backend.how (Pratik) pg@backend.how (Pratik) backend.how © 2026 by Pratik is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0530 https://backend.how/posts/temporal-under-the-hood/ Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0530pg@backend.how (Pratik) https://backend.how/posts/temporal-under-the-hood/ <h1 id="what-youll-learn"> <a class="anchor" href="#what-youll-learn"> <span class="h-text"> What you&rsquo;ll learn </span> <span class="pound">#</span> </a> </h1> <p>Durable execution engines like <a href="https://temporal.io/">Temporal</a> are increasingly how backend teams handle multi-step workflows — payments, order fulfilment, LLM agent loops, scheduled jobs. They make &ldquo;run this 4-step thing, retry on failure, wait for a webhook on step 3&rdquo; trivial to express in code. That&rsquo;s the pitch.</p> <p>The pitch makes the <em>cost</em> invisible. By the time you ship, your Postgres is handling an order of magnitude more queries than you expected, and you&rsquo;re not sure why.</p>