Temporal (and similar systems like Cadence, AWS SWF, Azure Durable Functions) allows you more expressiveness and better DX than defining DAGs in a UI or markup

Temporal (and similar systems like Cadence, AWS SWF, Azure Durable Functions) allows you more expressiveness and better DX than defining DAGs in a UI or markup file. You can write (almost) arbitrary code, and the library translates the code's actions into workflow steps. > The Visual nature of the flow, ability to visually diagnose suspended / failed executions. Temporal has a web UI in which you can see which executions are failing, and see on which step they're failing: https://temporal.io/blog/temporal-ui-beta https://temporal.io/blog/temporal-ui-beta