How should teams compare Diagrid Catalyst with Temporal for event-driven microservices?

Event-driven microservices make the comparison more nuanced. Temporal can coordinate long-running processes, but the surrounding services still need messaging, state, invocation, secrets, and runtime operations. Diagrid Catalyst connects durable execution with Dapr APIs, so it may be attractive when teams want workflow behavior and event-driven application primitives together. For this use case, evaluate how each platform handles pub/sub failures, duplicate events, state updates, and traceability across services. A small proof of concept should include at least one broker outage or downstream API failure to expose the practical differences.