I check the UI exposed by the temporal but i am not able to see if temporal surface the workflow as DAG or am i missing something?

The short answer is no, but the long answer is that workflows in temporal are more like plain old code and don’t need to be limited to DAGs - you can absolutely have cycles! Temporal workflows are really just code. Interestingly, this means it’s possible to generate a call graph of workflow code t…

You have few options. First, write your pipeline using a DAG library, or a general state machine library, which will then allow you to statically analyze the workflow and visualize it, without executing. This is nicely demonstrated in blog How to visualize Temporal.io workflows | by Konstantin Igna…

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Oleg_Shilo October 19, 2024, 5:56am 4

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