Asynchronous processing pipelines are a cornerstone of modern distributed systems, but wiring them together reliably can be complex. A typical pipeline built with queues or message brokers requires custom retry logic, dead-letter queues, cron recovery jobs, and database status flags to ensure every step eventually succeeds. Temporal replaces this heavy plumbing with durable workflows. In a Temporal workflow, the business logic of the pipeline is written as ordinary sequential code, yet it executes reliably across failures. The platform persists every state transition and step so that if a worker crashes or a network blip occurs, execution resumes exactly where it left off.