--- title: Child Workflows and Continue-As-New: Managing... description: Deep dive into two advanced Temporal workflow patterns: child workflows and continue-as-new. Child workflows enable fan-out parallelism, logical decomposition,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/child-workflows-and-continue-as-new-managing-long-running-and-complex-flows-7fymfgddj twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Child Workflows and Continue-As-New: Managing Long-Running and Complex Flows | daily.dev og:description: Deep dive into two advanced Temporal workflow patterns: child workflows and continue-as-new. Child workflows enable fan-out parallelism, logical decomposition,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/child-workflows-and-continue-as-new-managing-long-running-and-complex-flows-7fymfgddj og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/7fymfGDdJ.png og:image:alt: Child Workflows and Continue-As-New: Managing Long-Running and Complex Flows og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Child Workflows and Continue-As-New: Managing Long-Running and Complex Flows **[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Deep dive into two advanced Temporal workflow patterns: child workflows and continue-as-new. Child workflows enable fan-out parallelism, logical decomposition, and independent lifecycle management via parent_close_policy (TERMINATE, ABANDON, REQUEST_CANCEL). Continue-as-new solves the 50,000-event history limit for indefinitely-running workflows by starting a fresh execution with the same workflow ID and passing carry-over state as arguments. Practical Python code examples cover batch fan-out, fire-and-forget notification coordinators, subscription monitoring loops, signal-accumulating batch collectors, and large-scale chunked fan-out (10,000+ items). Also compares child workflows vs. signal-based sibling coordination for different use cases. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [All your workflows are about to be long running. 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