At Instacart, [Temporal] kind of speaks for itself. People who adopt it, they get faster, and a lot of other teams want to get on board.
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Instacart is an online grocery delivery service that connects customers with shoppers who purchase items from local stores. The company's platform team focuses on providing the tools and infrastructure necessary for other teams to build and maintain their applications. A key part of their role is ensuring that Instacart's internal teams can effectively utilize Temporal.
Instacart faced significant challenges in managing complex workflows involving multiple interdependent steps. The complicated set of tools that they’d assembled, such as Airflow, cron jobs, and long-running RPCs, proved inadequate for handling the intricacies and reliability requirements of their business processes. Upon implementation, Instacart continued to run into the following issues.
Instacart leverages Temporal to streamline complex business workflows and enhance developer productivity. Temporal’s key advantages resonated with the platform team:
Temporal has impacted our success greatly because the less time we have to think about…how to do the things that Temporal does, the more time we can spend thinking about what kind of business logic we want.
By adopting Temporal, Instacart has significantly improved its ability to build and manage intricate business processes, resulting in increased efficiency and scalability. Temporal’s focus on developer experience, coupled with its robust features, has made it a valuable asset in Instacart's technology stack.
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