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In SWF/Durable Functions/Cadence/Temporal, The entire workflow is defined as (deterministic) code, which is orchestrated by the engine.

As as opposed to... having undeterministic code? Workflow as code is also the theme of airflow, luigi and prefect.

With Temporal/Cadence you write (mostly) plain code to implement your business logic rather than using code to define DAGs.

This discussion has more on Airflow vs Cadence: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19732447