I agree about the buzzwords. We have deployed a core service developed with Temporal recently and it seems to deliver on its promises. I am looking forward to using it more. Once it 'clicks' you begin to see how the workflow model matches many business processes, which cannot be handled within a single request, or an event, very well.

I suspect it is here on HN (or the timing is a coincidence) because it was mentioned my mitchellh as a component of what is powering the Hashicorp Cloud offerings in a comment here mid-last week.

They also closed a fundraising round recently.

Outside of what we disclosed via case studies, Snapchat, Mitchell and Bob Muglia said publicly... I can tell you at least 10 fortune 100 companies run on our tech :)

It's a fork / rebranding of Cadence, written by Uber, which they use extensively

there's case studies from box, checkr and coinbase on the website