Migration work has a familiar rhythm. You spend sessions with an AI assistant reverse-engineering APIs, mapping edge cases, documenting risks — building a real understanding of the system you’re moving. The AI is genuinely useful. Then the session ends, and all of that context disappears with it. Next session, you begin from scratch, re-explaining the connector, restating the constraints, rediscovering…
Atlan is migrating workflow orchestration from Argo to Temporal. Learn why we made that call, the interim crossover architecture that kept us live during the transition, and what we’ve learned rebuilding orchestration in production.”
meta_title: “From Argo to Temporal at Atlan: Rebuilding Workflow Orchestration”
meta_description: “How Atlan’s Argo to Temporal migration works: why we made the call, the crossover architecture that kept us live, and what we’ve learned so far.
On building feedback loops for metadata, and what they become when AI enters the picture. “I found the dashboard I was looking for, but the description just repeated the title. I still didn’t know what metric it was actually showing.” That’s not a quote from one conversation. It’s the moment that keeps happening, in a different city, with a different…
On a typical weekday, our support engineers at Atlan used to start their shift in Zendesk with a familiar feeling: too many tickets, not enough clarity. Someone from the team was always wearing an unofficial second hat – queue manager. They would scan every new issue, guess whether it belonged to a particular product area or issue type, check who…
This is the story of how we discovered we needed to rebuild—and why that decision unlocked Atlan’s transformation from product to platform. Follow along as we explore the architectural constraints, platform economics, and the journey toward extensibility and marketplace ecosystems.
