# How many Activities should I use in my Temporal Workflow?

DevFeed: [How many Activities should I use in my Temporal Workflow?](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-many-activities-should-i-use-in-my-temporal-workflow-35858.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://temporal.io/blog/how-many-activities-should-i-use-in-my-temporal-workflow>)

Author: Taylor Khan

Published: 2025-04-16T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Temporal Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/temporal-blog.md>)

Topics: [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [retry](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/retry.md>), [optimize](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/optimize.md>), [Self-hosted](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/self-hosted.md>), [monitor](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/monitor.md>), [Network](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/network.md>)

Tags: [best-practices](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/best-practices.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [debug](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/debug.md>), [monitor](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/monitor.md>), [network](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/network.md>), [optimize](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/optimize.md>), [retry](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/retry.md>), [temporal-voices](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/temporal-voices.md>), [workflow](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/workflow.md>), [workflows](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/workflows.md>)

## AI overview

This tutorial explains how to decide whether to split work across multiple Temporal Activities. It recommends fine-grained Activities, usually one operation per Activity, while weighing state changes, event history, network requests, infrastructure cost, retry and timeout configuration, debugging, testing, monitoring, and workflow maintainability.

## Source excerpt

Learn when to split Temporal Activities for better Workflows. Explore necessity, practicality, and preference-based guidelines to optimize your design.