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title: "Technical Guides"
description: "In-depth technical guides and tutorials to help you learn more about Temporal."
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# Technical Guides

## Technical Guides Library

- [The State of Development Report 2026](https://temporal.io/reports/state-of-development-2026.md) — Whitepaper
- [Temporal Cloud: Provable security by design](https://temporal.io/pages/cloud-security-white-paper.md) — Whitepaper: Security shouldn’t be the reason your automation projects stall. This white paper shows how to move past the deadlock.
- [Cheat Sheet: Temporal for AI](https://assets.ctfassets.net/0uuz8ydxyd9p/amLpfMp3Anx0eUouE5KGJ/a17fe6bc2ab2d525723ffa7b5b2fb065/AI_concepts_in_Temporal.pdf) — Technical Guide: Temporal has an answer for every one of the key elements of an AI application or agent. Use this cheat sheet to map AI capabilities to Temporal features, so you can build production-ready AI applications.
- [Payments Modernization at Scale with MongoDB and Temporal](https://temporal.io/resources/guides/payments-modernization-at-scale-with-mongodb.md) — Whitepaper: This whitepaper explores how the strategic use of MongoDB and Temporal can power and scale the modernization process, transitioning from legacy systems to modern microservices architectures.
- [Quick launch Temporal Workers on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)](https://temporal.io/resources/guides/quick-launch-temporal-works-on-eks.md) — Technical Guide: Follow this guide to deploy and manage your Temporal Workers in EKS. You can apply this content to both self-hosted Temporal and Temporal Cloud Workflows.
- [Self-Hosting vs. Temporal Cloud: Making the Right Choice](https://pages.temporal.io/whitepaper-buy-vs-build.html) — Technical Guide: Make the right choice to meet the needs of your business.  Our experts created this Self-Hosting vs. Temporal Cloud guide  to help you evaluate both options, focusing on scalability, manageability, and cost efficiency.
- [Event-Driven Architectures: A better way forward](https://pages.temporal.io/whitepaper-event-driven-architectures) — Whitepaper
- [Cash App's Success with Temporal: Platform as Product](https://temporal.io/resources/guides/cash-apps-success-with-temporal.md) — Visual Guide: Find out how Cash App scaled effectively using Temporal with a platform-as-product approach. Learn key best practices for driving developer adoption, improving productivity, and ensuring system reliability in this visual guide.
- [Reducing Risk in Financial Services with Temporal](https://pages.temporal.io/download-reliability-in-finserv.html) — Whitepaper
- [Automating the Saga Pattern with Temporal](https://pages.temporal.io/download-saga-pattern-made-easy) — Whitepaper
- [How to deploy a Temporal Service using an SQLite backend with Nginx](https://learn.temporal.io/tutorials/infrastructure/nginx-sqlite-binary/) — Technical Guide
- [Build a Work Queue Slack App with TypeScript and deploy it to production on DigitalOcean](https://learn.temporal.io/tutorials/typescript/work-queue-slack-app/) — Technical Guide
- [Create Audiobooks from Text with OpenAI and Java](https://learn.temporal.io/tutorials/java/audiobook/) — Technical Guide
- [Build a trip booking application in Python](https://learn.temporal.io/tutorials/python/trip-booking-app/) — Technical Guide
- [Build a one-click order application with TypeScript and Next.js](https://learn.temporal.io/tutorials/typescript/build-one-click-order-app-nextjs/) — Technical Guide
- [How to deploy a Temporal Service using an SQLite backend with Envoy](https://learn.temporal.io/tutorials/infrastructure/envoy-sqlite-binary/) — Technical Guide
- [How to configure a Temporal Service without a Proxy](https://learn.temporal.io/tutorials/infrastructure/configuring-sqlite-binary/) — Technical Guide
- [Build an email drip campaign with Temporal and Java](https://learn.temporal.io/tutorials/java/build-an-email-drip-campaign/) — Technical Guide
- [Build a recurring billing subscription workflow with TypeScript](https://learn.temporal.io/tutorials/typescript/subscriptions/) — Technical Guide
- [State Machines Simplified: Reducing the complexity of state machines with Temporal](https://pages.temporal.io/download-state-machines-simplified) — Technical Guide