workflow-orchestration-patterns

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.

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Review — 82%

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Validation — 14 / 16 Passed

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Evaluation results

83%

Order Fulfillment Workflow

Saga pattern & compensation

Criteria

Without context

With context

Compensation before execution

40%

27%

LIFO rollback order

100%

Activities for external calls

100%

Workflow has no direct I/O

100%

No datetime.now() in workflow

100%

Idempotent compensations

63%

100%

Activity timeout config

100%

Non-retryable errors

25%

Compensation idempotency noted

100%

No threading in workflow

100%

Without context: $0.4030 · 1m 49s · 18 turns · 18 in / 5,515 out tokens

With context: $0.6450 · 2m 26s · 25 turns · 25 in / 7,931 out tokens

100%

Document Indexing Pipeline

Fan-out/fan-in & heartbeats

Criteria

Without context

With context

Child workflows used

100%

Bounded batch size

100%

Heartbeat in long activity

100%

Heartbeat timeout configured

100%

Activities for external work

100%

Activity timeout set

100%

No datetime.now() in workflow

100%

No threading in workflow

100%

Batching strategy documented

100%

Fan-in aggregation

100%

Without context: $0.7476 · 6m 13s · 25 turns · 24 in / 12,703 out tokens

With context: $0.9950 · 4m 44s · 29 turns · 27 in / 16,367 out tokens

94%

-6%

Bank Account Workflow System

Entity workflow & versioning

Criteria

Without context

With context

Signal handlers present

100%

Query handler present

100%

Versioning API used

100%

Version constants defined

100%

25%

Notification as activity

100%

No datetime.now() in workflow

100%

No global/static state in workflow

100%

Activity timeout configured

100%

Versioning explained in notes

100%

Workflow runs for entity lifetime

100%

Without context: $0.3700 · 1m 50s · 15 turns · 64 in / 5,537 out tokens

With context: $0.5869 · 2m 35s · 21 turns · 270 in / 8,276 out tokens

Evaluated: about 5 hours ago
Agent: Claude Code

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Order Fulfillment Workflow Document Indexing Pipeline Bank Account Workflow System

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