Announcing Workflow Pause, Viewer Roles, and more
We’re excited to announce some more items popping off the queue today: workflow pause, viewer roles, payload visibility, and embedded mode support for Typescript and Python! These are now available on Hatchet Cloud and our latest open-source releases.
Workflow pause
Workflow pause allows you to temporarily stop a workflow from executing new runs. While a workflow is paused, new runs are automatically queued (up to a queue TTL). All in-flight runs continue to run. This can be particularly useful if you’re facing a high error rate on workflows, and want to pause processing until you can resolve the errors. It can also be helpful for batch jobs: for example, you can queue jobs during the day and unpause the workflow to run the job nightly.
Viewer-only roles and payload visibility
Viewer-only roles and payload visibility have arrived! Tenant members with a viewer role can view runs, workflows, workers, events, logs, and metrics, but cannot trigger or modify anything. Additionally, you can use payload visibility to control which members see what.
Embedded mode for Typescript and Python
The Hatchet Embedded project, which provides a lightweight way to run a full Hatchet engine inside of your workers, is now available for Typescript and Python. You can use this for local development, end-to-end testing, and CI. We’ve been using embedded mode for a large portion of local workflow development, and it’s been a huge time-saver.
Improved SDK reference docs
Improved SDK reference docs have shipped. In our testing, we’ve found that these reference docs greatly improve the ability of coding agents like Claude Code and Cursor to implement functionality against the SDK. You can check those out here:
Migrating from Temporal
We’ve been encountering more and more users migrating their workloads from Temporal to Hatchet. To make this process easier, we’ve put together a new guide on Migrating from Temporal. Use this guide (or rather, point your agents at this guide) to get your workflows moved over to Hatchet.
From the blog
Last, be sure to check out the latest from the blog: a story about Hatchet’s embrace of a principle known as the andon cord to help us ship reliable and scalable software. I don’t recommend reading if you’re against Slack emojis or green toads.
Until next time!