The Cloudcast

Managing Microservices

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Jul 27, 2022
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ANECDOTE

Career Sparks Temporal's Creation

  • Maxim described his path from Moscow to Amazon, Google, and Uber which shaped Temporal's origins.
  • He explained how problems at Amazon and Uber led to an open-source orchestration project and then a company.
INSIGHT

Durable Functions As A New Abstraction

  • Temporal introduces a new abstraction: functions (workflows) guaranteed to execute despite failures.
  • These functions persist state and can survive crashes, network faults, and long waits like sleeping for 30 days.
INSIGHT

Shift Complexity From Code To Runtime

  • Operations/deployment tools evolved but developer abstractions stayed the same, causing complexity in distributed apps.
  • Temporal shifts complexity into its runtime so developers write simple business logic instead of custom orchestration plumbing.
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