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The saga pattern ensures safe and consistent state across distributed services so that the failure of one operation within a sequence results in prior operations being reversed using compensating transactions.

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Without Temporal
_{Saga typically requires significant forethought as there is no central system to manage coordination and visibility. Debugging unexpected failure modes can be treacherous.}

With Temporal
_{Workflow definitions allow you to more easily understand, debug, and modify sagas. Tighter coupling for  compensations increases and your application code remains clean.}

State machines are often used to define and manage valid state and transitions for entities within your application and depending on your application, they can be quite complex.

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Without Temporal
_{State machine code grows in complexity and length with the addition of each new state and maintenance and testing of them can be a challenge.}

With Temporal
_{Complete state of your function and workflow is captured, so you no longer need to automate, track and validate state so you can eliminate or avoid state machines.}

Batch Processes are created to execute a well-defined function across large or even small sets of data.

Without Temporal
_{Often, batch processes can be quite large and when they fail, you have limited or no insight into where they failed, what completed and what hasn't.}

With Temporal
_{Each execution within the batch process becomes a Workflow Execution with state captured, so that upon failure, you have insight into what completed and where to restart the process.}

For years, we have relied on Cron to schedule jobs to be executed at a certain time or regular interval.

Without Temporal
_{Cron is a largely manual process that can be unreliable and provides limited to no controls over execution.}

With Temporal
_{You can replace Cron with Scheduled Workflows to be reliably executed.  You can start and pause them and even set up signals to start them on command for a Workflow.}