October marks the 💀🧛♂️🎃 spookiest 🎃🧛♂️💀season of the year! We’ll be honoring this glorious occasion by regaling “Spooky Stories” throughout the month about life before Temporal. You’ll glean best practices and hear harrowing tales from community members, partners, and Temporalites alike!
Spooky Stories will be added to this page throughout the month, so please watch this space! 👀
- Oct 1: Horrors of long-running, unpredictable workloads with Apache Kafka by Gabriel Harris-Rouquette, Senior Software Engineer @ Merit.
- Oct. 4: Spooky Web Scraping, at Scale by Steve Poole, Developer Advocate for all things Java, Security, DevOps
- Oct. 8: Money Transfers on the Edge of Town a spooky interpretation of a story by James Heller, Co-Founder and Principal Consultant @ Apartment 304
- Oct 9: Chilling Temporal Anti-Patterns by Joshua Smith, Staff Solutions Architect @ Temporal
- See as blog post Anti-Patterns Part 1 and Anti-Patterns Part 2
- Oct 15: Nightmares of Spiraling Deployment Complexity by Daniel Abraham, Founding Engineer @ autokitteh
- Oct 16: The Ghosts of Systems Past: Zaq Wiedmann and Sr. Infrastructure Engineer II @ Khan Academy and Kate Pond, Sr. Software Engineer @ Openly
- Oct 17: The Tale of the Haunted Costume Store: Cecil Phillips, Staff Developer Advocate @ Stripe
- Oct 29: Eerie Ghosts of Temporal Past by Maxim Fateev, CTO @ Temporal (RSVP here)
- Oct 29: Silence of the Lambdas and other Spooky Stories from Prod (Oakland, CA meetup with our friends at LaunchDarkly)
- Oct 31: Terrifying Tales from the Temporal Trenches by Tihomir Surdilovic Senior Staff Developer Success Engineer @ Temporal (RSVP here)
Our stories will conclude on Halloween (October 31) with the ULTIMATE spooky story from Temporal’s very own Tihomir Surdilovic, Senior Staff Developer Success Engineer. You’ll gain an excellent understanding of the different types of issues that tend to occur, why, and how to troubleshoot them. You’ll also pick up tips and best practices around monitoring and metrics. Head off hurdles before they become a problem!
This special event will be a version of his standing room-only talk from Replay 2024. If you missed it or if you want to revisit his advice, don't lose out on this opportunity! (RSVP link coming soon.)
There is also still time to contribute a Spooky Story of your own! 🧟
