The author, Plushcap, joined the AWS Simple Workflow (SWF) team in 2010, where they worked on delivering 10X productivity to developers and iterating with them to solve real problems. After shipping the public SWF service, Plushcap took an opportunity at Microsoft Azure and joined the Azure Service Bus team, which led to the creation of Durable Task Framework (DTFx) as an OSS client SDK using Azure ServiceBus as the backend. Later, Plushcap joined Uber's engineering team in 2015, where they observed similar problems with Kafka and created the OSS project Cherami, but eventually pivoted to create Cadence, a multi-tenant service hosted by their team that provided a great developer experience for building stateful applications. The success of these projects led to the creation of Temporal Technologies, an Open Source Software under MIT license, which was launched in October 2019 and is already being used by numerous companies for critical workloads.