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  "slug": "temporal",
  "name": "Temporal",
  "url": "https://temporal.io",
  "cat": "auto",
  "group": "ship",
  "tagline": "Durable execution, MIT self-host",
  "price": "Self-hosted server free under MIT. Cloud gives $1,000 in starting credits; Essentials from $100/mo for 1M actions, Business from $500/mo for 2.5M, Enterprise 10M. Extra actions $50 per million.",
  "tier": "mixed",
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  "what": "The heavyweight durable-execution engine: workflows are ordinary code in Go, Java, TypeScript, Python, .NET, PHP or Ruby, and the server replays event history to survive process crashes, deploys and multi-day sleeps. MIT-licensed server, mature SDKs, used for money movement and long-running sagas.",
  "why": "Reach for it when correctness is non-negotiable: payments, provisioning, anything where a dropped job becomes a support ticket. A workflow can <code>sleep</code> for 30 days and wake up with its local variables intact.",
  "warn": "Steep learning curve: determinism constraints, workflow versioning and worker fleets are real engineering work. Self-hosting means running Cassandra or Postgres plus Elasticsearch, and Cloud starts at $100/mo once the credits run out.",
  "install": "brew install temporal && temporal server start-dev",
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    "name": "Automation & background jobs",
    "desc": "Visual no-code and code-first job runners — different problems, listed together.",
    "group": "ship",
    "groupName": "Ship it & keep it alive"
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    "status_code": 200,
    "final_url": "https://temporal.io/",
    "checked_at": "2026-08-19T00:58:08.071+00:00"
  },
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}