Temporal Encyclopedia

Support, stability, and dependency info

Our Docs modernization effort is underway. New documentation will co-exist alongside our current docs content. We're rebuilding the docs for better organization and engagement so you can find what you need to know with clear unambiguous communication.

• This page's content is unchanged.
• This page is ticketed for future work.
• Please review the new elements here:
  • Durable Execution
  • Workflows
    • Workflow Determinism which is not part of the encyclopedia but some related test writing from an earlier effort to discuss communication patterns in documentation

Temporal provides developers a suite of effective tools for building reliable applications at scale.

The following Encyclopedia pages describe the concepts, components, and features of Temporal in detail:

• Temporal
• Temporal SDKs
• Workflows
• Activities
• Workers
• Retry Policies
• Temporal Service
• Visibility
• Namespaces
• Temporal Nexus
• Data conversion

For a complete list of Temporal terms, see the Glossary.

For information on how to implement the developer-facing features see the Develop section.

For information on how to use Temporal Cloud see the Temporal Cloud production deployment section.

For information on how to self-host a Temporal Service see the Self-hosted production deployment section.