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Discussion on: Workflows: Windmill vs n8n vs Langflow vs Temporal — Choosing the Right Tool for the Job

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Frederic Zhou

Thanks! Yes – Windmill allows all scripts and flows to be stored as local files or synced with Git, so you can use a standard Git-based CI/CD pipeline. Temporal is fully code-driven, which makes it naturally CI/CD-friendly as well.

For n8n and Langflow, in a team collaboration setup you’d typically export the flow definitions as JSON, commit them to a Git repo, and then integrate them with CI/CD for versioning and deployment.

As for automation: Temporal, Windmill, and n8n all support scheduled triggers, but Windmill and n8n go further with a rich set of third-party event triggers (webhooks, message queues, etc.), making them great for the “front-end” of automation pipelines. Temporal then shines as the strict, reliable workflow executor on the backend.