Productionizing Workers in Temporal

Temporal, a distributed system for job scheduling and orchestration, requires careful monitoring and management when deployed in production. Key areas to consider include operational metrics, incident response and tooling, upgrading and versioning, and testing failure paths. Monitoring and alerting are crucial for understanding the health of Activity and Workflow workers, while proper logging and execution history can aid in debugging issues. Upgrades should be handled carefully using Temporal's getVersion API or by leveraging task queues for short-lived workflows. Testing failure paths is also important to ensure that the system can handle backlogs, capacity planning, and timeouts effectively.