Use Cases

Workflows

Workflows are recipes for business processes, which allow businesses to automate and manage complex sequences of tasks in a scalable and reliable way.

With Golem Cloud, you can launch invincible workflows as serverless workers. Golem ensures the workers execute invincibly, surviving hardware failures, upgrades, and updates.

E-Commerce Order Processing

A typical e-commerce transaction involves multiple steps such as inventory check, payment processing, shipping, and notifications. Each step has to be executed in sequence, and failures need to be handled gracefully. With invincible workflows, the entire process can be modeled as a workflow that maintains its state even if a task fails or the service restarts.

Microservices Orchestration

In a microservices architecture, individual services need to communicate and coordinate to deliver a business process. Invincible workflows can effectively manage this coordination, ensuring that even in case of failures or restarts, the state of the process is maintained, and services can pick up from where they left off.

Data Processing and ETL Pipelines

ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes often involve long-running tasks that can be interrupted due to various reasons. Invincible workflows ensure the reliable execution of these processes, even in the face of disruptions. They can handle complex scenarios like data dependencies, retries, error handling, and compensation tasks.

IoT Device Management

Internet of Things (IoT) devices frequently send data that needs to be processed and acted upon. Sometimes these actions involve multi-step processes and need to be coordinated across many devices. Invincible workflows are ideal for orchestrating these operations, ensuring a reliable state management and fault-tolerant process execution.

Business Process Automation

Many businesses have complex processes that span across different systems and require a sequence of tasks to be completed over a period of time. Examples include insurance claim processing, loan origination, or customer onboarding. Invincible workflows allow these processes to be modelled, executed, and managed reliably and efficiently.

Artificial Intelligence Processes

Artificial intelligence processes can automate processes and provide functionality never before possible, but require reliable execution over extended periods of time. Examples include using AI to carry out multi-step tasks or to interact with humans or AI agents. Invincible workflows provide a reliable foundation for orchestrating these processes.

Actors

Actors are self-contained, independent entities that encapsulate state and behavior, like an object in object-oriented programming, and are a useful primitive in distributed programming.

Online Multiplayer Gaming

Invincible actors can maintain the state of an in-progress game (like player scores, game progress) across different gaming sessions. Even if a player disconnects or the server restarts, the game state can be restored and continued from where it left off.

IoT Device Management

IoT devices often operate in a distributed manner, constantly producing and consuming data. Invincible actors can model each device, managing their state persistently, and providing reliable communication between devices, even in the face of network failures or device reboots.

E-commerce Shopping Carts

Shopping carts need to maintain their state over time, across different user sessions and devices. With invincible actors, each shopping cart can be modeled as an actor, ensuring a reliable shopping experience even if a user disconnects or switches devices.

Distributed Machine Learning

Artificial intelligence processes can automate processes and provide functionality never before possible, but require reliable execution over extended periods of time. Examples include using AI to carry out multi-step tasks or to interact with humans or AI agents. Invincible workflows provide a reliable foundation for orchestrating these processes.

Real-time Streaming Analytics

Invincible actors can help manage the stateful operations often required in real-time analytics, like maintaining sliding windows of data or tracking session information. Trees or graphs of actors can process virtually unlimited amounts of data in a robust way.

Financial Systems

In finance, systems like trading platforms or transaction processing systems need to handle multi-step operations atomically while maintaining consistency and reliability. Invincible actors can handle these requirements effectively, ensuring robustness and fault tolerance.