Temporal or BullMQ?
Practice this question- I use a queue for isolated background jobs and a durable workflow platform for long-lived coordination, timers, and human events when justified.
- BullMQ still needs explicit business lifecycle records; Temporal still needs idempotent activities and deterministic workflow logic.
Adapted from 13_AI.MD · “29.11 Workflows”. Code examples are study fragments. Difficulty and core labels are editorial estimates; version-specific behavior should be checked against your project.