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Design durable workflows with Temporal for distributed systems. Covers workflow vs activity separation, saga patterns, state management, and determinism constraints. Use when building long-running processes, distributed transactions, or microservice orchestration.

When to use

• Working on workflow orchestration patterns tasks or workflows
• Needing guidance, best practices, or checklists for workflow orchestration patterns
• **Multi-step processes** spanning machines/services/databases
• **Distributed transactions** requiring all-or-nothing semantics
• **Long-running workflows** (hours to years) with automatic state persistence
• **Failure recovery** that must resume from last successful step
• **Business processes**: bookings, orders, campaigns, approvals
• **Entity lifecycle management**: inventory tracking, account management, cart workflows

When not to use

• The task is unrelated to workflow orchestration patterns
• You need a different domain or tool outside this scope

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