September 2023 Summaries

Temporal's September newsletter highlights the company's participation in significant events, including the Replay conference in Seattle and upcoming appearances at QCon in San Francisco and All Things Open in Raleigh, North Carolina. The newsletter announces a new PHP SDK update, featuring support for React/Promises v3 and Eager Workflow Dispatch, and introduces a special offer for startups to access Temporal Cloud. Temporal is also hosting a community meetup in London and sharing educational content, such as a live coding video on compensating transactions in Go. The Replay conference was marked by engaging talks and new technology showcases, with recorded sessions soon to be available. Upcoming product updates include Datadog Integration, Worker Versioning, and Global Namespaces, emphasizing Temporal's commitment to innovation and community engagement.

At their annual conference, Replay, Temporal announced a new program called Temporal Cloud for Startups, offering free access to Temporal Cloud for startups with less than $30M in funding. The program includes $2,400 in cloud credits that can be applied towards Temporal Cloud usage and support services. This initiative aims to help startups balance growth and efficient use of funding while building reliable products. To join the program, interested companies can submit an application on their website or contact them for more information.

Replay 2023's first day featured insightful talks on Temporal's Durable Execution and its applications in various industries. Maxim discussed shifting perspectives to simplify software development models, while Samar and Preeti announced new product features like Versioning and Schedules. Matt McDole from Yum! Brands shared their successful migration of KFC and Taco Bell ordering systems to a Temporal-based platform. Twilio's Sai Pragna Etikyala explained how Temporal helped meet compliance requirements, and Roberto Fernandez discussed performance improvements for executing DAGs at Retool. Chris Ludden and Anthony Davis from HashiCorp presented their code generation approach, while Patroklos Stefanou shared Stripe's experience using Temporal for managing Kafka Clusters. Dan Golant from Datadog provided a tour of workflows vs services and when to use Temporal. The event also included "Birds of a Feather" sessions where attendees could ask questions about the Temporal SDKs.

Today, we kicked off our annual Replay conference, and we're incredibly thankful to all those who joined us early on Day 0 to get the event started. We taught workshops across three languages and had the rooms packed with people learning Temporal all day long! The event featured a Community happy hour at SPIN Seattle, where speakers and community members came together for downtime before the next journey of Replay. This morning's talks covered a broad range of topics, including software engineering, while a post will be published later with a summary of some exciting keynote talks. The event also provided access to Temporal docs and courses for those who couldn't attend in person.

The blog post announces updates and upcoming events related to the Temporal technology platform. Key points include the second annual Replay conference, first-ever Hackathon in Seattle, new features for Cloud Namespace security, Private Previews of Workflow History Export, an on-demand webinar about setting up Temporal SDK and Observability endpoint, a new version of Go SDK (v1.24.0), resources to get familiar with Temporal, the 2023 Replay Conference agenda, details for the Hackathon at Replay, an After Party for Replay attendees, Road to Replay webinars, and upcoming meetups and events such as Temporal Happy Hour, Strangeloop, GopherCon US, and new on-demand webinars.