Child Workflows - Temporal feature
In Temporal, Child Workflows enable applications to achieve another level of composability when it comes to throughput.
The following example scenarios are a few reasons to use this feature:
- To create a separate service that can be invoked from multiple other services or applications.
- To partition a step into smaller smaller chunks.
- To manage a dedicated resource and guarantee uniqueness.
- To execute logic periodically without overwhelming the parent business process.
See the SDK feature guides for implementation details:
Go SDK Child Workflow feature guidefeature-guide
Java SDK Child Workflow feature guidefeature-guide
PHP SDK Child Workflow feature guidefeature-guide
Python SDK Child Workflow feature guidefeature-guide
TypeScript SDK Child Workflow feature guidefeature-guide
.NET SDK Child Workflow feature guidefeature-guide
For a deep dive into Child Workflows see the Child Workflows Encyclopedia page.