Temporal Community Newsletter: December 2024

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As we wrap up this year, Temporal has no plans to slow down. This month, we’re bringing you exciting product launches, event announcements, and essential resources to level up your workflow game in 2025. From the general availability of Workflow Update to new SDK improvements and upcoming meetups across the globe, there’s plenty to explore.

Need a reason to celebrate early? Temporal’s Replay 2025 is right around the corner, with tickets now on sale and a CFP extension for those last-minute submissions. Plus, we’re thrilled to share stories of innovation from our community, like Jason Steving’s holiday-ready AgentOfCode project.

Read on for the latest updates, events, and tools to keep your workflows durable and efficient. Let’s finish the year strong and hit the ground running in 2025!

Product Updates

  • Workflow Update is now Generally Available. Updates are great for low-latency interactive applications such as shopping carts. Just send an update to your workflow and synchronously get a response back.
  • Workflow Update-With-Start is now in Public Preview and available in all SDKs. Key use cases include lazy initialization (e.g., adding an item to a shopping cart and creating the cart if it doesn’t exist) and early return (i.e., starting a workflow, validating it synchronously, returning the result, and continuing the rest asynchronously)
  • Temporal Cloud Terraform Provider v0.5.0 has been released. This pre-release candidate hardens existing resources and data sources. Feedback and testing are welcome!

SDK Updates

  • Go SDK 1.30.1 and 1.31.0 include some breaking updates for Nexus, support for Update-With-Start, user metadata support for activities and child/scheduled workflows, and other small improvements.
  • Java SDK 1.27.0 offers improved Update APIs (including Update-With-Start), support for Java Virtual Threads, and many other small improvements.
  • TypeScript SDK 1.11.5 provides an interface for users to implement their own slot suppliers (to auto-tune the SDK’s performance) and includes many small ergonomic improvements.
  • PHP SDK 2.11.3 and 2.11.4 include bugfixes and are now compatible with PHP 8.4.
  • Temporal CLI 1.1.2 updates Temporal Server to 1.25.2 and Temporal UI Server to 2.32.0.

Upcoming Meetups & Events

Meetup: Join us in Chicago on January 14, where Peter Sullivan will present “Simple, Reliable Sagas in TypeScript”—an insightful talk on using Temporal to orchestrate Sagas with ease and scalability. Learn how Temporal simplifies complex workflows in distributed systems.
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Meetup: Join us in Milan on January 22, where you’ll connect with fellow enthusiasts and explore innovative uses of Temporal in workflow orchestration. Highlights include Mediaset’s Marco Reni and Davide Romano discussing how Temporal is transforming data integrations and workflows.
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Webinar: Designing High-Performance Financial Ledgers: Join us on January 23 for a conversation about how to design high-performance ledgers for financial services and fintech, with topics including key components of modern ledgers, build vs. buy considerations, and how Temporal can serve as a ledger’s durable workflow layer.
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Webinar: Connect Temporal Applications Across Isolated Namespaces with Nexus: Join Netflix and the Temporal team to explore how Nexus simplifies connecting workflows across teams, namespaces, and regions for secure, scalable orchestration.
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Live workshop: The next event in our live workshops series will be Temporal 101 in Python on January 8.
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Replay 2025

Replay 2025: Tickets on Sale Now!

Get ready to modernize the monolith at Replay 2025 in London, March 3–5, 2025! Day 1 kicks off with hands-on workshops in .NET, Go, or Java, designed to level up your skills. Prefer to flex your creativity? Join our hackathon and show us what you’ve got!

CFP Extension Alert!

The Call for Proposals (CFP) deadline has been extended to December 20th! You still have time to submit your innovative ideas and secure a spot on the Replay stage. Need inspiration? Check out this recorded session packed with tips and tricks for crafting a standout proposal.

Don’t wait—secure your ticket today and start planning your Replay experience!

Resources

  • Self-host or choose Temporal Cloud? Our new guide breaks down the options to help you align with your team’s needs. Read now to find the right solution for your workflows.
  • Workshops at Replay: Read about our workshops that will be presented at Replay this year in London!
  • $2.25M Saved Annually with Temporal Cloud! A new ROI analysis reveals how a Temporal Cloud customer reduced costs and improved efficiency. Read the analysis.
  • Check out our newest blog post about event-driven systems and the truth about loosely coupled architectures.

Open Source in Finance Podcast
Max Fateev, CTO of Temporal, discusses the power of open source, the critical role of security in financial services, and how Temporal is transforming the industry. A must-listen for anyone in fintech!
Listen now ›

Techstrong.tv Feature
Samar and Max joined Techstrong.tv to discuss Temporal’s revolutionary open-source durable execution model. This segment is a fantastic introduction to how Temporal boosts developer productivity, reliability, and product velocity.
Watch now ›

Community Highlights

If you have content or code you’ve created around Temporal, please tell us about it in #show-us-what-you-got channel on our Community Slack!

Vote for Temporal in the 2024 DevOps Dozen Awards
Temporal has been selected as a finalist in the 2024 DevOps Dozen Awards. We’d love your support to bring home the win. Please take a moment to cast your vote for Temporal in categories #16 and #17.
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Award: Top 100 Software Companies (#59)
Temporal has been named one of the Top 100 Software Companies of 2024!

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