but the money being raised - what is it for ? go to market ? sponsorship & I like that temporal sponsored Crystal Palace.
we've so many good durable execution engines.
this is the type of VC pollution that will cause companies to end up being acquired by an Italian silverware company (bending spoons).
Buying DRAM?
Temporal is fully open source, you can run the entire thing on your laptop or your own server. People pay for the SaaS anyway, because dealing with the distributed computing problems is hard.
(There are some other projects inspired by Temporal as well, but if you want to run something in-house, you're probably funding a minimum of 2-3 engineers to handle on-call, and for that price the SaaS is competitive).