Barrchives Behind the scenes of Temporal’s explosive growth, with co-founders Max and Samar
Oct 3, 2025
Explore the explosive growth of Temporal through the lens of its co-founders, who share insights on the evolution from Amazon SWF to Uber’s Cadence. Discover the significance of durable execution for modern distributed applications, especially in AI. They discuss technical challenges like working with Cassandra, the importance of open-source strategy, and the roadmap for streaming and data workflows. Hear about how AI adoption is driving rapid growth and learn their vision for making durable execution the standard.
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Open Source Sustains Infrastructure
- Open sourcing infrastructure preserves long-term life and external innovation for complex systems.
- Max argues internal tools stagnate; open source lets a project attract community and sustained investment.
From Cherami To Cadence At Uber
- At Uber they built Cherami to replace Kafka and later realized they needed background job processing.
- That work led them to create Cadence and open-source it from day one to ease adoption.
Build For Developers First
- Focus on developer experience by iterating with real users and measuring adoption by apps built.
- Samar recommends designing features around concrete developer problems uncovered in production.