Reading up on Temporal
4 deep · digging since mar 12
- Building durable workflows on Postgres
Commenters debate using Postgres for durable workflows, praising its flexibility but warning it often leads to building a poor copy of dedicated workflow engines like Temporal.
- What we’ve learned building cloud agents
Cursor's cloud agents perform best when given full development environments, durable execution via Temporal, and a harness that shifts control to the agent.
- Temporal: The 9-year journey to fix time in JavaScript
After nine years of work, the Temporal proposal reached Stage 4, providing a modern, immutable date/time API to replace JavaScript's flawed Date object.
- Temporal: The 9-Year Journey to Fix Time in JavaScript
JavaScript's Temporal API reached Stage 4 after nine years of collaboration among Bloomberg, Igalia, and TC39, providing immutable datetime types with time zone and calendar support.