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Temporal provides helpful primitives called Workflows and Activities for orchestrating processes. A common pattern I've found useful is the ability to run multiple "child workflows" in parallel from a single "parent" workflow.
Temporal gives you flexibility to define different task queues to route workflows and activities to specific workers. When a worker starts up, it is configured to consume from a specific task queue by name, along with the activities and workflows it is capable of running.
A spot where I slipped up in trying to adopt Temporal in an existing Python project and then again in starting a new Python project was in defining a Workflow that invokes an Activity that calls a third party library. Temporal outputs an error message with a long stacktrace that I vaguely...