Maxim and Samar on Gremlin's Build Things Podcast

Gremlin is leading the fast-growing field of Chaos Engineering, a practice involving carefully planned experiments to understand how systems behave in the face of failure. Temporal provides a scalable solution for handling failures and its co-founders Maxim Fateev and Samar Abbas recently appeared on Gremlin's podcast "Break Things on Purpose" to discuss it. Temporal originated from Cadence, an internal framework at Uber that grew in popularity within the company and was eventually adopted by other organizations like HashiCorp, Box, Coinbase, and Checkr. The founders decided to strike out on their own with Temporal to drive its technology forward for a global audience. One of Uber's values was to provide rides as reliable as running water, which led to the development of Cadence to help engineers build resiliency and reliability into their applications. The goal was to allow application teams to focus more on building amazing features rather than dealing with failure conditions. Temporal helps achieve this by providing fault-tolerant code that is guaranteed to finish execution. Temporal's features include task queues, local state management, and support for long-running tasks. It is particularly well-suited for financial transactions due to its strong reliability guarantees. To ensure a good experience with Temporal, it is recommended to redesign applications end-to-end and consider the importance of durability in the application's state.