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N8n vs. Windmill vs. Temporal

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The article contains a bunch of non existent links. Seems like AI hallucinations to me. Now I have question how much of the article is AI generated.

Thanks for flagging. In software world changes come fast, so its normal for some docs & blogs especially, updated now.

Looks to be all AI. The telltale is the “$SUBJECT: $SNAPPY_CHARACTERIZATON”motif throughout the subheadings. A secondary telltale is the overuse of Hypophora whereby a rhetorical question is asked and then answered to advance the text.

+1 to Windmill. Incredibly powerful tool with a simple UI. It's super easy to Self-Host using their product docker-compose.yaml file and, outside of changing a few variables in a .env file, it's pretty much plug and play.

Unlike other tools, you don't need to make any changes to existing scripts when migrating over to Windmill, it accepts plain Python, Typescript, Rust, C#, and many more.

We use it to orchestrate all internal tools and automation and has been a huge time saver.

I can’t speak to N8n or Temporal, but coming to Windmill from Airplane I love it for its simplicity in design for use by others. Being able to build a front end app from a simple Python script has let us quickly deliver end user quick fix style apps out of our already written scripts.

What would a Django(server side templates)+Celery user miss out on without Windmill?

> Temporal optimizes for correctness, sacrificing simplicity.

You should check out DBOS, which optimizes for both simplicity and correctness.

Thanks! This looks nice... looking at their SDKs, it doesn't feel on same level of quality. Also, not fully open-source: https://github.com/dbos-inc/dbos-transact-py/issues/488

> looking at their SDKs, it doesn't feel on same level of quality.

Interesting. The usual feedback is the opposite. For example, DBOS Python works both sync and async, Temporal only async.

> Also, not fully open-source:

This is not correct, everything you need for durable execution with DBOS is open source (and MIT licensed, unlike Temporal). It's open source the same way Spark is -- everything you need is open source, but you can buy services to make it easier to run and buy support.

I wonder under what use case would you compare n8n (no code) to temporal (only code). It’s like apples and oranges?

OpenAI runs their agents on temporal

Super interesting! Citation?

The comment was a bit misleading. We have no info OpenAI does it. However we do have info that they have a pretty neat integration: https://temporal.io/blog/announcing-openai-agents-sdk-integr...

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