temporal-beats-triggerdev-for-autonomous-agent-fleets

Trigger.dev’s CRIU checkpointing (resume-from-crash, not restart-from-zero) is cloud-only — self-hosted Trigger.dev restarts failed workflows from the beginning, causing duplicate API calls and lost state. Temporal’s deterministic replay is available in self-hosted and is the gold standard: crashed agents at step 47 of 50 resume at step 48, not step 1. For hundreds of autonomous agents running 24/7, this distinction makes the difference between a reliable system and one that hemorrhages errors.