Temporal, co-founded by Max Fateev and Samar Abbas, is an open-source orchestration tool designed to simplify workflow management for developers by allowing them to focus on business logic without worrying about failure recovery, state, or time. Drawing on their experiences at Amazon, Microsoft, and Uber, Fateev and Abbas developed Temporal to address the complexities of distributed systems and improve the developer experience. Temporal's core innovation, "Durable Execution," ensures the continuity of workflows even across failures, making it particularly appealing to financial services and other industries that require resilience and precision. The platform emphasizes security, with a secure-by-design approach that separates user applications from the backend orchestration cluster. Temporal's open-source nature under an MIT license encourages community-driven improvements and broad adoption, with an optional cloud-hosted service that offers managed infrastructure while allowing developers to retain control over their applications and data.