[mfateev]

temporal.io provides much higher level abstraction for building asynchronous microservices. It allows one to model async invocations as synchronous blocking calls of any duration (months for example). And the state updates and queueing are transactional out of the box.

Here is an example using Typescript SDK:

   async function main(userId, intervals){ 
     // Send reminder emails, e.g. after 1, 7, and 30 days
   
     for (const interval of intervals) {
       await sleep(interval * DAYS);
       // can take hours if the downstream service is down
       await activities.sendEmail(interval, userId); 
     } 
     // Easily cancelled when user unsubscribes
   } 

Disclaimer: I'm one of the creators of the project.