Two Years In

Temporal has experienced significant growth since its inception in September 2020. The company now consists of 116 employees across various teams, including Server, SDK, Cloud, Infra, Developer Tools, Security, and a "10x" team. In addition to engineering roles, Temporal has built other critical functions such as Go To Market, Technical Writing, Education, Customer Success, Recruiting, Finance, Product, and Design teams. The company raised its B round in December 2021 and is actively hiring to accelerate investments across multiple areas. Temporal transitioned from a primarily local company to a fully remote one, unlocking access to great hires outside of the Seattle area. However, the company's geographical makeup presents challenges in terms of effective collaboration. Temporal is still figuring out how to manage this situation and would like to learn from other companies that have faced similar issues. The company uses various collaboration tools such as Slack, Zoom, Notion, GitHub Actions, and k9s. Temporal also leverages its own product for building the Control Plane, which manages resources, deployment of software, monitoring, alerting, and handling failures. The architecture of the Control Plane is designed to minimize and contain the impact of any issue within an individual Cell. One of the core characteristics of Temporal is that a Temporal Cluster can scale linearly with the database and compute resources given to it. The company continues to learn the best approach for balancing between scaling out and up, investing in both high-scale individual Cells and Namespaces. For 2023, Temporal plans to focus on people, evolving its work processes, planning, and collaboration methods as the company grows.