Xgrid's Forward-Deployed Engineers embed with your team for 2–6 weeks — designing, shipping, and stabilizing production-grade Temporal workflows. Whether you're starting from scratch, migrating from legacy systems, or hitting a wall at scale.
15 minutes. No sales pitch. We tell you exactly what's at risk in your current setup.
A worker died mid-execution. The transaction half-ran. Nobody knows which orders are affected — or how to safely replay without double-charging customers.
A new code version caused non-determinism errors in running workflows. Rollback isn't safe. Your team is paralyzed and long-running executions are silently failing.
You know Temporal is the right move. But migrating the legacy orchestration layer feels too risky to touch, so it sits — accumulating more fragility with every sprint.
Task queues back up under load. Workers saturate. Workflow history grows until replays grind to a halt. And you can't figure out where the bottleneck actually is.
We've solved every one of these in production. Here's how.
Start here. We'll map your problem to the right solution — Temporal or otherwise. No upsell.
"When to use Temporal vs Kafka vs cron — and the exact failure modes that make teams switch." Written for engineering leaders, not developers.
Most teams ship a prototype and call it done. Then they hit production load and discover what they didn't know they didn't know.
A Fortune 500 enterprise shipped their first mission-critical Temporal workflow in 5 weeks, including enterprise-grade security patterns and full handoff to their internal team.
Your Kafka consumers, Celery workers, and cron jobs are technical debt with a timer on them. But migrating the critical paths feels too risky to schedule.
A construction workforce platform eliminated recurring reliability failures in critical production workflows — without rewriting a single legacy system.
Your self-hosted Temporal deployment works — but ops burden, HA complexity, and upgrade anxiety are all growing. Moving feels riskier than staying.
A fast-growing scale-up migrated their entire AI workflow and business process orchestration to Temporal Cloud — achieving 99.99% reliability with zero workflow loss.
Temporal is in production. But now you're hitting walls — queue backlogs, worker saturation, history bloat, and debugging nightmares on long-running workflows.
Not a 6-month engagement. Not a discovery phase that never ends. A defined scope, a defined outcome, and a team that ships — then hands off.
Your FDE joins your Slack, your repo, and your standups in week one. They map your risk surface, understand your constraints, and align on exactly which workflow is going to production.
Architecture designed with failure modes addressed from day one. A real production workflow — not a prototype — built alongside your engineers. Versioning, retries, observability included.
Validated under real load. Runbooks, ADRs, and observability transferred to your team. When we leave, your engineers can ship the next workflow entirely on their own.
We've designed the engagement to remove every barrier that makes teams hesitate.
We sign before seeing a single line of your code. Security review happens before any system access.
One production workflow outcome, agreed before work starts. No scope creep. No surprise invoices.
Everything we write is yours. No licensing, no proprietary framework, no Xgrid dependency in your architecture.
We work alongside your existing systems. Strangler-fig patterns, feature flags, dual-run migrations — not big bangs.
The engagement ends when your team can own and extend the patterns without us. That's the definition of done.
Post-engagement support available if your team wants us around — but designed so you don't need it.
Real workflows, real production, real outcomes — not demos.
A fast-growing company ran sophisticated on-prem Temporal for AI workflows and business orchestration. Migration felt too risky — in-flight long-running workflows, no proven disaster recovery, ops burden mounting. We delivered a dual-run migration with feature-flagged cutover and zero workflow loss.
Recurring reliability failures in the most critical production workflows. The team knew Temporal was right but feared the migration — too many live executions, no rollback plan, engineers afraid to touch it. We used strangler-fig patterns to migrate incrementally, with every stage rollback-safe.
A Fortune 500 enterprise needed Temporal done right the first time — HIPAA-adjacent compliance, encrypted payloads, audit trails, and complete internal ownership after handoff. We embedded with their team and shipped with full observability, versioning, and zero proprietary dependencies.
Not because we're precious about it — but because the engagement only works when your team is ready to own the output.
You want an agency to build and maintain it forever
You need a 3-month discovery phase before any code is written
You're looking for someone to "figure out if Temporal is right for us" with no engineering involvement
Your team won't be participating — you want someone to just handle it
Either way, the workflow review is free. 15 minutes. A certified FDE tells you exactly what's at risk in your Temporal deployment — and what to do about it. No pitch, no obligation.
NDA signed before any repo or system access · 100% code ownership · No lock-in