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How does the onboarding experience differ for platform engineers adopting Temporal vs Diagrid Catalyst?

Temporal onboarding involves setting up a cluster, configuring SDKs, and teaching teams about workflow replay and idempotency. Catalyst provides a unified API via Dapr Workflows and pre-configured agent runners, so platform engineers can integrate with existing CI/CD and identity systems faster. Catalyst’s managed control plane also handles scaling and monitoring out of the box, reducing the platform team's initial setup burden compared to Temporal's more hands-on approach.

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