# How Temporal Enables Durable Execution Service Providers

DevFeed: [How Temporal Enables Durable Execution Service Providers](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/to-be-or-not-to-be-a-durable-execution-service-provider-36075.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://temporal.io/blog/to-be-or-not-to-be-a-durable-execution-service-provider>)

Author: Cully Wakelin

Published: 2024-02-22T07:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

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

Topics: [distributed-systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/distributed-systems.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>)

Tags: [distributed-systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/distributed-systems.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [software-development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software-development.md>), [temporal-concepts](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/temporal-concepts.md>)

## AI overview

The article explains how Temporal's open-source software enables teams to build Durable Execution Service Provider systems. It presents Durable Execution, also called Workflow Execution in Temporal, as an abstraction for ensuring that an application's main function and defined steps execute once and reach completion.

## Source excerpt

Explore the concept of durable execution and how Temporal enables anyone to become a Durable Execution Service Provider.