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…ct, Temporal, Inngest, Windmill) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- Reframe "Three Generations" as two generations plus a visual UX over Gen 1 (flow builders are an authoring mode, not a distinct generation) - Wrap the 5-engine code comparison and dynamic-control-flow comparison in Tabs so readers don't have to scroll top-to-bottom - Add a Benchmark Methodology section explaining why only Temporal is compared and defining seq_N / par_N / fan_out_N; note repro repo is planned - Replace most ASCII box/sequence diagrams with React components: DAG scheduler model, Airflow state machine, Temporal replay sequence, Inngest HTTP roundtrips, persistence spectrum, worker architecture, GitHub stars bar chart - Reduce em dashes across the post (periods/colons/commas where they were lazy sentence joiners; kept genuine parentheticals) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Dagster's ~13.5K stars put it above Hatchet/Inngest/Restate/DBOS, and its software-defined-asset model is a genuinely different authoring paradigm on top of the Gen-1 execution model — worth a short entry even though the underlying runtime is similar to Airflow/Prefect. Also update the description, intro, section title, and GitHub stars chart to include Dagster. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
Long-form technical blog post comparing workflow engines, targeting HN audience.
Engines covered in depth: Airflow, Prefect, Temporal, Inngest, Windmill WAC, Windmill Flows
Honorable mentions: Restate, DBOS, Hatchet
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workflow engine, durable execution, Airflow, Temporal, Prefect, Inngest, Windmill, workflow-as-code, DAG scheduler, event sourcing
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