2025-02-15
1 小时 53 分钟Foreign.
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Well friends, I'm here with Samar Abbas, co founder and CEO of Temporal.
Temporal is the platform developers use to build invincible applications.
But what exactly is temporal?
Samar, how do you describe what Temporal does?
I would say to explain Temporal is one of the hardest challenges of my life.
It's a developer platform and it's a paradigm shift.
I've been doing this technology for almost like 15 years.
The way I typically describe it, imagine like all of us when we were writing documents in the 90s, I used to use Microsoft Word.
I love the entire experience, everything.
But still the thing that I hated the most is how many documents or how many edits I have lost because I forgot to save.
Or like something bad happened and I lost my document.
You get in the habit when you are writing up a document back in the 90s to do control s literally every sentence you write.
But in the 2000s Google Doc doesn't even have a save button.
So I believe software developers are still living in the 90s era where majority of the code they are writing is they have some state which needs to live beyond multiple request response.
Majority of the development is load that state, apply an event, and then take some actions and store it back.