Temporal picks up $103m for workflow-as-code platform

A startup that provides application state management systems for Netflix, Snap, and Hashicorp, among others, has raised $103m in Series B funding to help the company expand. Temporal claims to be seeing strong demand for its platform that helps to manage application workflows at scale. The latest bout of funding has been led …

[Robert Grant]

Can't really tell what this is

Does it host business processes? Applications built using the actor model? Something else? What's "state management" and how's it different from a shared cache or a database?