Scaling DevTools Temporal founders: Samar Abbas and Maxim Fateev
Mar 13, 2025
Samar Abbas and Maxim Fateev, co-founders of Temporal, dive into their durable execution platform that brings reliability and scalability to processes. They uncover how major players like Snapchat use Temporal for story processing and how it ensures seamless experiences. The duo explains the importance of earning enterprise trust through security and their unique sales compensation model. Excitingly, they explore trends in AI and low-code/no-code development, emphasizing how Temporal supports developers by offloading reliability.
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Temporal Powers Snapchat Stories
- Snapchat uses Temporal to orchestrate the backend workflow every time a story is posted.
- Samar says Temporal is in the path of every story being posted on Snapchat, handling massive scale like New Year's Eve spikes.
Failures Become Non‑Events
- Temporal shifts developer focus from handling failures to writing business logic.
- Samar argues startups can build faster with Temporal because failures become non-events and resiliency is handled by the platform.
From Cadence At Uber To Temporal Startup
- Cadence (Uber) grew to 100+ internal use cases and attracted external adopters like Airbnb and Coinbase.
- Maxim recounts how Cadence's open-source success led them to start Temporal as a company.