# Why a context engine needs Durable Execution: How Unblocked rebuilt its ingestion backbone on Temporal

DevFeed: [Why a context engine needs Durable Execution: How Unblocked rebuilt its ingestion backbone on Temporal](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/why-a-context-engine-needs-durable-execution-how-unblocked-rebuilt-its-ingestion-backbone-on-temporal-36106.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://temporal.io/blog/why-a-context-engine-needs-durable-execution-how-unblocked-rebuilt-its-ingestion-backbone-on-temporal>)

Author: Martin Scotta

Published: 2026-07-14T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

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

Topics: [AI Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-development.md>), [Orchestration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/orchestration.md>), [Model Context Protocol](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/model-context-protocol.md>), [Software Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software-engineering.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-agents.md>), [cli](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cli.md>), [community](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/community.md>), [mcp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mcp.md>), [orchestration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/orchestration.md>), [slack](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/slack.md>), [workflows](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/workflows.md>)

## AI overview

Unblocked describes moving its ingestion backbone for an AI context engine to Temporal. The system continuously processes changing information from code, pull requests, conversations, documentation, runtime signals, and other connectors, while exposing results through MCP, a CLI, and an API. The article explains how Unblocked replaced custom queues, retries, recovery code, and an in-memory actor model with durable execution and evaluates Temporal alongside Prefect and a self-managed alternative.

## Source excerpt

See how Unblocked replaced bespoke ingestion orchestration with Temporal to run 1 million durable, observable AI context Workflows every day.