You can absolutely approach it that way, but AFAIK those are highly integrated but still discrete solutions. Temporal provides a unified model for these things instead of requiring people to stitch things together themselves. Due to Temporal handling all of the things, you also get additional value out of the centralization (you can see the live source of truth for any running business process).
I do agree that Temporal is heavyweight both in terms of the learning curve and deployment requirements.
For disclosure I’m the Head of Product at Temporaly. We know things can be better and we are working on it.
Temporal provides a unified backend for automatically managing implicit application state that is normally stored in transient queues, databases etc. Furthermore, Temporal does this without explicitly requiring the developer to think about and manage the state themselves. This means developers spend way more time building stuff that actually matters, and less time writing buggy reliability code.
I personally find the best way to explain it is with an analogy. Back in the late 90s many developers built applications with C and therefore had to manage their own memory. For a long time, this was not wasted effort as it was the only real option. But then, Java came around and offered an experience where developers didn't have to manage their memory. And for the majority of apps, the performance and capabilities of Java were more than sufficient. At this point, writing the average application in C meant you were doing a serious amount of undifferentiated work. Furthermore, most developers weren't that great at memory management so choosing to do it by hand meant more work for a worse result.
The value proposition of Temporal is nearly identical, but instead of manually managing memory with C, developers are manually managing state using queues, CRON services, databases and more. The result is a bunch of time spent doing undifferentiated things that a computer would have done better anyway.
I think Medium barely has a community. I also think you're right when you say
I find the discussion of HOW to get communities onto better platforms to be a more interesting topic than why the current platform sucks, especially when that platform doesn't even seem to listen to the criticism.
But you need to remember that's a very progressive position. Most friends I have are completely unaware that Medium has become a crap platform
Hey guys,I've created the project to facilitate sharing and testing of other users terminal setups.
I love feedback and am open to all PRs, so please don't hold back.
Also for those who don't want to read the post, https://github.com/rylandg/myos is the repo, leave a star if you like what you see.