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title: "From POC to Production Code - Best practices for avoiding pitfalls in your Temporal applications"
canonical: "https://temporal.io/resources/on-demand/from-poc-to-production-code.md"
source: "https://temporal.io/resources/on-demand/from-poc-to-production-code"
resource_type: "Replay 2023"
published: "2024-10-09"
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# From POC to Production Code - Best practices for avoiding pitfalls in your Temporal applications

Presented by: [Tihomir Surdilovic](https://temporal.io/authors/tihomir-surdilovic.md)

[Watch the video](https://www.youtube.com/embed/NzOfYAZHX3U?si=dPaKUvVOz-eNMVdo)

Need a closer look? [Download and review slides presented at Replay 2023 here](https://pages.temporal.io/download-replay-2023-slides).

Drawing from extensive real-life experience with numerous large-scale and complex workflow implementations, we dive into Temporal metrics, workflow and activity configurations, platform limits, determinism issues, and more. In addition, you’ll gain insights into Temporal Cloud metrics and discover the importance of Worker logging and metrics. 

Through these comprehensive strategies, we’ll demonstrate how you can optimize performance, potentially cut down costs, and solidify the reliability of your Temporal deployment.

## Related resources

- [Logixboard: Finding order in the event-driven chaos with Temporal](https://temporal.io/resources/on-demand/finding-order-in-the-event-driven-chaos-with-temporal.md) — Replay 2023
- [Instacart: How Workflows are empowering our platforms](https://temporal.io/resources/on-demand/temporal-at-instacart-how-workflows-are-empowering-our-platforms.md) — Replay 2023
- [What's cloud got to do with it? A novel persistence layer for Temporal Cloud](https://temporal.io/resources/on-demand/whats-cloud-got-to-do-with-it-a-novel-persistence-layer-for-temporal-cloud.md) — Replay 2023