December 2023 Summaries

Temporal Schedules offer a more durable way to execute tasks compared to traditional cron jobs. They provide insights into task progress, enable observability of schedules and workflow runs, and allow for the start, stop, and pause of these tasks. Converting existing cron jobs to Temporal Schedules is a straightforward process that can be accomplished using various interfaces such as the SDKs, CLI, or UI. The benefits of this conversion include enhanced workflow control and visibility, flexible and extensible scheduling, and elimination of external dependencies. By converting to Temporal Schedules, developers can take advantage of these benefits and improve their overall workflow management.

The December newsletter highlights the General Availability of Schedules, Temporal .NET SDK, and Python SDK's Workflow Update feature. It also mentions upcoming webinars and meetups in Melbourne, Mumbai, San Francisco, and Hyderabad. Additionally, it provides access to 2023 Replay Conference talks on YouTube and introduces new Temporal 102 courses in various SDK languages. The newsletter encourages feedback from the community through their Community Slack or Twitter account.

Temporal's December newsletter provides a comprehensive update on the company's latest developments, including the general availability of the Temporal .NET SDK and new features like Schedules, a durable alternative to traditional Cron jobs. It highlights SDK updates, such as the .NET SDK 1.0.0 release and Python SDK 1.4.0, which introduces Typed Search Attributes and advanced metrics. The newsletter also announces the availability of a December webinar on demand, details upcoming meetups in Melbourne, Mumbai, San Francisco, and Hyderabad, and shares that all 39 talks from the 2023 Replay Conference are now accessible on YouTube. Additionally, it outlines Temporal's integration at Yum! Brands and Instacart, and promotes new Temporal 102 courses for various SDK languages. The newsletter invites community engagement through feedback on Slack and Twitter and offers insights into the Temporal Partner Ecosystem and Temporal Cloud benefits for startups.

The release of the .NET SDK allows developers to write workflows in C#, adding to the existing support for Go, Java, Python, and TypeScript. This post provides a high-level overview of Temporal .NET's features and its development challenges. It demonstrates how to implement an activity and a workflow using C#, as well as running a worker and executing a workflow. The SDK ensures deterministic execution by creating a custom TaskScheduler and asks users not to use platform threading/async outside of the deterministic scheduler. Future enhancements include source generation, analyzers for detecting invalid calls in workflows, and support for the new TimeProvider API.

The latest training course, Temporal 102: Exploring Durable Execution with Python, has been made generally available for developers who have completed the Temporal 101 course. This new course is self-paced and free, covering best practices and key concepts for deploying Temporal applications to production. The upcoming Temporal Versioning course will be released soon in all four supported languages: Go, Java, TypeScript, and Python.