Temporal’s Rust SDK is now GA. Write Workflows and Activities in Rust and run Workers on Tokio. Temporal records Workflow progress so execution can continue after a Worker stops. Quickstart: https://pulse.ly/vq4uhgiapf
Your control plane is a shell script with no memory, no retries, and no rollback. Part 2 of our series: build a resilient platform control plane with Entity Workflows. One durable Workflow per resource. https://temporal.io/blog/how-to-build-a-resilient-platform-control-plane-with-temporal
I was recently diagnosed with a rare autoimmune disorder called anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis. It's a "disease of chaos" that completely upturned my life for a couple months. I wrote a blog about it that goes into more detail and discusses prognosis. :-) burntsushi.net/encephalitis/
Encephalitis - Andrew Gallant's Blog
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Interesting (lighter) alternative to Temporal
Since some asked: five months of Absurd in production. Durable execution on plain Postgres with tiny SDKs. The design held up fine, partitioning is still hard and some closing thoughts on the future of Open Source. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/4/4/abs...
I’m happily building DSQL persistence for @temporal.io. @marcbrooker.bsky.social and team have gifted us a fab service. I readily accept I may be messing up my integration 😂 Guidance greatly accepted 🙏 (Oh! @kiro.dev has proven invaluable in this ❤️)
🤖📈 Building a 24/7 crypto trader with ambient agents on Temporal—durable, observable, and powered by Schedules, Signals/Queries & MCP-backed Workflows. Read the blog: https://temporal.io/blog/orchestrating-ambient-agents-with-temporal
Orchestrating ambient agents with Temporal
How Temporal and MCP power a 24/7 crypto trading system of ambient agents: Schedules, Signals and Queries, durable tools, and auditability.
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Most MCP tools are fire-and-forget. With Temporal they can run for days, accept approval, and report status via signals/queries 🔧 Josh Smith breaks it down with Kevin Martin’s invoice sample. Read: https://temporal.io/blog/building-long-running-interactive-mcp-tools-temporal
Building long-running interactive MCP tools with Temporal
Learn how to interact with a long-running tool workflow using MCP from one of our Solutions Architects, Josh Smith.
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MacStories Weekly is back on Friday starting today, and I prepared a very technical Obsidian deep dive. This week, I've shared all the details behind my new Dashboard note, which automatically collects notes that need my attention. Link for members: club.macstories.net/posts/my-obs... (Fixed URL)
My Obsidian Setup, Part 11: My New Dashboard Note and Its Dataview Queries
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