With Temporal, we've reduced resources to build new systems from 10 engineers to 5 engineers, and regularly reduce lines of code from 300 to 30.
Industry
High Tech
Use Case
Orchestrating distributed transactions
Company Size
250-2000
SDK
Go
Temporal
Self-Hosted
DigitalOcean, a leading cloud infrastructure provider, empowers developers with a range of hosting solutions. Their storage team, which plays a crucial role in ensuring reliable object and block storage services, adopted Temporal to improve the data consistency across various storage resources.
Prior to adopting Temporal, the DigitalOcean storage team didn’t have a sufficient distributed transaction mechanism, which at times resulted in data desynchronization when they stored data in multiple locations. These synchronization issues caused an operational burden.
The team took two approaches to reconciliation before adopting Temporal. One involved building custom reconciliation methods–essentially writing their own state machines to track resource updates across systems. However, this approach proved to be:
The thing I love about Temporal is that you can write normal code in your language...and actually just make it work in this distributed way.
DigitalOcean discovered Temporal as a solution specifically designed for orchestrating complex workflows with distributed transactions. Temporal's key advantages resonated with the storage team:
Temporal has allowed me to deliver projects that would otherwise be much more complex, and much more difficult, on time and ahead of schedule, and we no longer have this ongoing maintenance burden.
DigitalOcean's experience with Temporal has significantly improved the development speed of the storage team and reliability of their services:
Temporal has helped DigitalOcean reconcile data in their storage systems, leading to more reliable systems and faster engineering velocity. The storage team delivers projects much more efficiently, letting them stay on top of their roadmap and deliver more value.
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