Temporal eliminated message delays, improved workflow reliability, and reduced our task backlog
Industry
Retail
Use Case
Booking
Company Size
250-2000
SDK
Java
Temporal
Cloud
NOTE: This is a summary of a talk given by the Turo team at Replay 2023.
Turo is a car sharing marketplace where users can book any car they want, wherever they want, whenever they want. Turo has been experiencing incredible growth, and their legacy scheduling system, Quartz, could not keep up with the demand. Quartz suffered from misfires, stuck jobs, and death loops, causing scheduling unreliability.
After evaluating several platforms, Turo chose Temporal because it met all of their requirements around scale, fault tolerance, cost-effectiveness, and a developer experience.
Their initial approach was to decouple Quartz’s job firing from execution by introducing queues everywhere. However, this only led to marginal improvements and increased complexity. Turo then decided to take a step back and look for a platform that would better meet their needs.
After evaluating several platforms including Dinin, AWS Step Functions, Conductor, and Eventbrite Scheduler, the team chose Temporal because it met several key challenges they wanted to address with a new workflow system:
Turo decided to implement Temporal in phases. The first phase focused on two critical jobs: start trip and trip extension reminder. They identified these two jobs as good candidates because they had a history of challenges and were based on different anchors in the reservation lifecycle.
The success of the MVP led them to commit to fully retiring Quartz by the end of the year. To achieve this goal, Turo decided to use a lift-and-shift strategy to migrate their existing Quartz jobs to Temporal. This involved creating scheduled workflows in Temporal that mirrored the functionality of the Quartz jobs.
The team acknowledges that this lift-and-shift approach was not ideal, but it allows them to quickly retire Quartz and meet their short-term goal. In the long-term, Turo plans to refactor their workflows to take full advantage of Temporal.
Key takeaways that Turo learned from this process:
This summary was pulled from a talk that the Turo team provided at Replay 2023. You can check out the video below or see all the videos from the show on our Replay 2023 video page.
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