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Planned engineering notes

Topics the Orch8 team plans to publish. These are previews, not completed articles.

Engineering·Planned

Why I Built a Durable Workflow Engine in Rust Instead of Using Temporal

Temporal is a mature durable-execution platform built around event-history replay. Orch8 explores a different trade-off for campaign-style sequences: persisted snapshots, JSON definitions, and plain HTTP handlers.

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Architecture·Planned

State Snapshots vs Event Replay: A Different Approach to Durable Execution

Some durable workflow engines reconstruct state from event history; Orch8 persists execution snapshots. Here are the trade-offs and why they matter for long-running sequences.

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Product·Planned

The Scheduling Infrastructure You Keep Rebuilding

Retry logic, rate limiting, timezone handling, and crash recovery often become shared scheduling infrastructure. This article examines what belongs in the workflow engine.

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