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Customer loyalty program
How to run a customer loyalty program with the entity pattern and durable workflows.
Distributed locking
Coordinate access to shared resources with a distributed lock.
Durable gaming sessions
Protect player sessions from backend failures by using the Actor pattern.
Migrate from Celery
Convert a Celery task queue to Temporal Standalone Activities, with retries and monitoring.
Rate-limit downstream APIs
Protect limited resources and avoid Workflow failures with separate Task Queues.
Recover without restart
Build business processes that pause on errors and recover without restarting.
Reliable document approvals
Build durable human-in-the-loop Workflows.
Route specialized workloads
Direct resource-intensive workloads to appropriate Task Queues to optimize resources.
Temporary rate limit increases
Handle temporary spikes in usage by dynamically provisioning extra capacity.
Worker execution affinity
Direct multiple Activities to execute on the same Worker to maintain data locality.