Awesome Cadence and Temporal Workflow Engines

A curated list of awesome things related to the Cadence and Temporal Workflow Engines

General

• Cadence Homepage Github
• Temporal Homepage Github

Documentation

• Temporal
• Cadence

Companies

• Temporal Technologies (Company behind Temporal)

Clients

Temporal

• Java
• Golang
• PHP
• Ruby
• Python (Unofficial)

Cadence

• Java
• Golang
• Python
• C#
• Ruby

Communities

• Cadence Slack
• Temporal Slack
• Cadence tagged questions on Stackoverflow
• Temporal tagged questions on Stackoverflow
• Temporal Discussion Forum (Discourse)

Tools

• Cadence Web - Web UI for visualizing workflows on Cadence
• Temporal Web - This web UI is used to view workflows from Temporalio, see what's running, and explore and debug workflow executions.
• Cadence Lint [Golang]

Sample Code

• Cadence Golang Samples
• Cadence Java Samples
  • SAGA
• Cadence Python Samples
• Temporal Golang DSL Sample
• Cadence Java DSL Sample

Framework Integrations

• Spring Starter for Cadence Java Client

Open Source Projects using Cadence or Temporal

• States Language on Cadence

Blog Posts

• Building your first Cadence Workflow
• The Configuration Complexity Clock (Not about Cadence or Temporal in itself but frequently referenced when people discuss DSL vs Code)
• Conducting Better Business with Uber's Open Source Orchestration Tool, Cadence
• Improving the User Experience with Uber’s Customer Obsession Ticket Routing Workflow and Orchestration Engine
• Installing Uber’s Cadence Workflow System
• Cadence — The only workflow orchestrator you will ever need
• Using Cadence workflows to spin up Kubernetes
• Positive and Negative Data Engineering (Not about Cadence or Temporal but a great introduction on why one should adopt a workflow engine)
• Deploying Pipeline Kubernetes Engine on AWS with Cadence
• Implement File Processing Workflows in Python using Cadence
• Big BPM is coming
• Building Reliable Workflows: Cadence as a Fallback for Event-Driven Processing
• Temporal Workflow and Microservices
• Workflows in Python using Temporal
• Temporal: Open Source Workflows as Code
• Temporal: a central brain for Box
• Tour of Temporal: Welcome to the Workflow
• Tour of Temporal: Performance
• Workflow Orchestration 1 - What is a workflow?
• Workflow Orchestration - Part 2 (Why do I care?)
• Workflow Orchestration - Part 3 (How do I use this?)
• Passing Context with Temporal
• Why Rust powers Temporal’s new Core SDK
• [The macro problem with microservices - Stack Overflow Blog](https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/11/23/the-macro-problem-with-microservices/

News Coverage

• https://thenewstack.io/temporal-tackles-microservice-reliability-headaches/

Tutorials

• Cadence Intro Workshop
• Temporal with Ryland (EP01) - Hello Workflow
• Temporal with Ryland (EP02) - Debugging and the Web UI

Forum Threads

• /r/golang Reddit September 2019
• /r/golang Reddit March 2020
• Hacker News April 2019
• Hacker News July 2020 - Thread on Simple Workflow Service (SWF) with a discussion of Cadence/Temporal

Comparisons

• apache airflow comparison

Podcasts

• Cadence: Uber’s Workflow Engine with Maxim Fateev
• Access Control Management with Fouad Matin and Dan Gillespie - Cadence is mentioned in the podcast as one of the core technologies that is used in their company.

Video Presentations

• Designing A Workflow Engine from First Principles
• Maxim's talk from Systems@Scale - Spring 2021
• The Temporal Workflow Engine - GoSEA September 2020
• Uber Cadence: Fault Tolerant Actor Framework
• Cadence: Microservice architecture beyond request/reply
• Cadence Meetup: Introduction to Cadence
• Cadence Meetup: Exploring an UberEATS Use Case
• Cadence Meetup: Writing a Cadence Workflow
• Cadence Meetup: Cadence Architecture
• cadenceworkflow.io tutorial: Java Hello World Workflow Implementation
• [Uber Open Summit 2018] Cadence: The Only Workflow Platform You'll Ever Need
• Episode 077 – Uber Cadence with Maxim Fateev
• firstminute in conversation with Maxim Fateev (Creator, Cadence Workflow & Temporal
• Making Multi Environment Service Networking on Microsoft Azure Easy With Consul - Cadence portion starts at around 18:28
• Pykonik Tech Talks #51 - Cadence - a workflow orchestration engine to execute long-running business logic - Cadence portion starts at 12:00
• Temporal Go SDK Tutorial
• Temporal Open Office Hours #1 (07/01/20)
• Temporal Open Office Hours #2 (08/26/20)

Experimental

• cadence-sqlite

FAQs

• Temporal workflow vs Cadence Workflow
• What is the difference between an Idempotent and a Deterministic function?

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