Temporal Community Newsletter: January 2023

The blog post provides an overview of Temporal's activities and updates for January. It highlights the release of Python SDK version 1.0.0, which is now generally available. The Ruby SDK also received improvements, with full-featured support in development. Additionally, a task priority rate limiter was added to the background Task processing system, and the history scavenger for cleaning up orphan Workflow data was improved. Temporal's community events include meetups, onboarding sessions, design sessions, and workshops. The first meetup of the year featured speakers from Maira and Maersk discussing their low-code platform built on Temporal. Upcoming events include sponsorship at PHP UK Conference in February. The blog post also covers various topics related to understanding and debugging event histories, testing Workflows and Activities, setting up Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring performance metrics, troubleshooting the DeadlineExceeded error, reasons not to use Run Ids in Workflow logic, an overview of failure categories, Python SDK sandboxing, cross-platform search, link previews, and recent blog posts. Meet the DevRel team section introduces readers to Temporal's Developer Relations team members. The Community Spotlight highlights a Twitter thread of the month featuring @DominikTornow discussing distributed systems.