I’m confused on something. What’s the difference between Temporal and something like Dagster/Airflow/Prefect? Is there a difference between ETL and workflows? Or is just branding?
From my limited understanding, Dagster and Airflow are limited DAG-based tools compared to Temporal that lets you write your logic in the programming language directly (loops, conditionals, coroutines, other libraries, etc) so long as you remain deterministic. Prefect I am also not that familiar with so I can't tell if their "flows" have limited logic they can do from Python, but they do not seem to support things like signals/queries at first glance.
One big difference is those three are Python only, and Temporal is Go, Java, JS/TypeScript, Python, PHP, and .NET. Usually another difference between most workflow tooling and Temporal (granted I have not checked with these) is the care they take in handling errors, retry, replay, cancel, etc so that'd be worth checking as well.
