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Tech TransformedDeveloper Productivity 5X to 10X: Is Durable Execution the Answer to AI Orchestration Challenges?"If you are not using it and don't understand it, you are losing big time because you reinvent that wheel of durable execution yourself, and it's hard," reasons Maxim Fateev, Co-Founder and CTO of Temporal Technologies. In a recent episode of the Tech Transformed podcast, Fateev explored the concept of durable execution. This approach not only improves software reliability but is also becoming essential for the next generation of AI agents and orchestration.What is Durable Execution?Durable execution, a concept trademarked by Temporal Technologies, changes how developers build reliable applications. "The idea is...
2025-08-0624 min
Hard SoftwareHard Software Episode 12: Infrastructure Evolutions with Maxim Fateev, Co-Founder + CTO @ Temporal This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit blog.bem.ai
2025-07-0355 min
devtools.fm: Developer Tools, Open Source, Software DevelopmentMaxim Fateev - TemporalThis week we talk to Maxim Fateev, a co-founder of Temporal. Temporal started as a tool for Uber but quickly grew into a tool that makes distributed code exectution a breeze. Come hear what one of the poineers of Durable Exectution has to say!https://temporal.ioEpisode sponsored By WorkOS (https://workos.com)Become a paid subscriber our patreon, spotify, or apple podcasts for the full episode.https://www.patreon.com/devtoolsfmhttps://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/devtoolsfm/subscribehttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/devtools-fm/id1566647758https://www.youtube.com...
2025-06-2352 min
The CTO Playbook47: The Future of Distributed Architecture and Durable Execution with Temporal CTO, Maxim FateevJoin The CTO Playbook Slack Community to connect with other CTOs!What if the most complex part of your backend system... just vanished?In this episode, Adam sits down with Maxim Fateev, CTO and co-founder of Temporal, a platform quietly revolutionizing how distributed systems are built at companies like Stripe, Snap, and Netflix. With a career spanning Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Uber, Maxim brings a rare, battle-tested perspective to the chaos of modern infrastructure.This conversation unpacks why the old way of building event-driven...
2025-06-1045 min
Coffee and Open SourceMaxim FateevMaxim has spent the last 25 years building massive distributed systems for Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Uber. Among other things, he led the design and development of the AWS SQS backend, and AWS Simple Workflow Service. At Uber, Maxim led the effort on open source projects Cherami and Cadence Workflow.Since October of 2019, Maxim has been the CEO/Cofounder of Temporal Technologies. Its flagship open source project temporal.io is redefining the way large-scale reliable applications are developed and operated.You can find Maxim on the following sites:LinkedInXGitHubHere are some links provided by Maxim:
2025-03-181h 02
Scaling DevToolsTemporal founders: Samar Abbas and Maxim FateevMaxim Fateev and Samar Abbas from Temporal join us to discuss how their durable execution platform ensures processes complete reliably at scale.We discuss:How Temporal gained enterprise adoption with companies like Airbnb, HashiCorp, and Snapchat.Why Temporal compensates salespeople based on customer consumption.Temporal’s role in Snapchat’s story processing and Taco Bell’s Taco Tuesday scalability.How Temporal earns enterprise trust through security, reliability, and scalability.The structure of Temporal’s sales team and their focus on long-term customer success.Exciting trends in AI and low-code/no-code development.This episode is brought to you b...
2025-03-1349 min
ContributorNo PhD Required: Restate with Stephan EwenStephan Ewen (@StephanEwen) is the co-founder of Restate, the open-source workflow-as-code engine. Restate is lightweight, simple, and provides durable execution. Before Restate, Stephan co-created Apache Flink, the open-source stream processing framework. Lessons learned from Flink have heavily influenced the development of Restate, although Stephan says they have exact opposite use cases.
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2024-09-2532 min
ContributorNo PhD Required: Restate with Stephan EwanStephan Ewen (@StephanEwen) is the co-founder of Restate, the open-source workflow-as-code engine. Restate is lightweight, simple, and provides durable execution. Before Restate, Stephan co-created Apache Flink, the open-source stream processing framework. Lessons learned from Flink have heavily influenced the development of Restate, although Stephan says they have exact opposite use cases.
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2024-09-2532 min
Founded & FundedTemporal Founders Bet on Open Source and Developers to Enable Invincible ApplicationsMadrona Managing Director Soma Somasegar hosts Temporal Co-Founders Samar Abbas and Maxim Fateev in studio. Temporal was founded in 2019 based on an open-source microservices orchestration engine project but is the result of a more than decade-long partnership between the two co-founders that spanned their time working on different iterations of the same thing at AWS, Microsoft, and Uber. In this episode, Soma, Samar, and Maxim dive into the challenges of building an open-source ecosystem while also working on a commercial offering and scaling a successful company, how to navigate and adjust a product roadmap in an ever-changing...
2024-08-1535 min
Tech Uncensored - An Altitude Accelerator PodcastEpisode 42 Is the Engineer Dead?Will new emerging technologies assist engineers in enhancing their capabilities or will their jobs simply be done for them? At Collision, 2023, Hessie Jones met with Maxim Fateev, CEO of Temporal and Anand Kulkarni, CEO of Crowdbotics.Both organizations are making it increasingly easier for engineers in light of the advances in Generative AI. One school of thought: it's much easier to replace certain aspects of desktop jobs than replace labor skills like carpenters or construction workers. Everything that works well in AI is happening behind the screen currently, but not so much in the...
2024-01-0517 min
Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developersSE Radio 596: Maxim Fateev on Durable Execution with TemporalMaxim Fateev, the CEO of Temporal, speaks with SE Radio's Philip Winston about how Temporal implements durable execution. They explore concepts including workflows, activities, timers, event histories, signals, and queries. Maxim also compares deployment using self-hosted clusters or the Temporal Cloud.
2023-12-271h 08Software Engineering Radio - The Podcast for Professional Software DevelopersSE Radio 596: Maxim Fateev on Durable Execution with TemporalMaxim Fateev, the CEO of Temporal, speaks with SE Radio's Philip Winston about how Temporal implements durable execution. They explore concepts including workflows, activities, timers, event histories, signals, and queries. Maxim also compares deployment using self-hosted clusters or the Temporal Cloud.
2023-12-271h 08Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developersSE Radio 596: Maxim Fateev on Durable Execution with TemporalMaxim Fateev, the CEO of Temporal, speaks with SE Radio's Philip Winston about how Temporal implements durable execution. They explore concepts including workflows, activities, timers, event histories, signals, and queries. Maxim also compares deployment using self-hosted clusters or the Temporal Cloud.
2023-12-271h 08
Open Source Archives - Software Engineering DailyTemporal with Max Fateev
There are countless real world scenarios where a workflow or process has multiple steps, and some steps must be completed before others can be started. Think of something as simple as cooking dinner. First you look up a recipe, then you write down the ingredients you need, you go shopping, and then you cook. These steps must be run in a certain order, and the state of the workflow must be tracked throughout. Workflow management is everywhere in the software world, and today it’s common for teams to engineer custom solutions. This makes sense, because creating a...
2023-11-0741 min
Software Engineering DailyTemporal with Max FateevThere are countless real world scenarios where a workflow or process has multiple steps, and some steps must be completed before others can be started. Think of something as simple as cooking dinner. First you look up a recipe, then you write down the ingredients you need, you go shopping, and then you cook. These steps must be run in a certain order, and the state of the workflow must be tracked throughout. Workflow management is everywhere in the software world, and today it's common for teams to engineer custom solutions. This makes sense, because creating a general-purpose solution...
2023-11-0740 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS8 E28: Maxim Fateev, TemporalMaxim Fateev grew up in the Soviet Union, and witnessed its collapse. He left in 1995, and moved to Brazil, where he got his Masters in Computer Science. In the late 90's, he moved to the US, eventually landing in Seattle, which loves. He's been married for 27 years, with 3 boys, and loves to hike, play ice hockey, and snowboard. He mentioned there were a number of choices, but he prefers Whistler in Canada, when he can make the 5 hour drive.During the development of open source services at Amazon, Maxim came across the idea of durable execution. Eventually...
2023-10-2420 min
ContributorAutomation for Technical People: n8n with Jan OberhauserJan Oberhauser (@JanOberhauser) is the founder and CEO of n8n, the free and source-available workflow automation tool for technical users. n8n's flexible architecture allows users to avoid the limitations of other automation tools, while also opening doors for complex automation scenarios. The project has garnered over 30,000 GitHub stars and a thriving community of 55,000+ members.
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How Jan’s background in film effects laid the groundwork for n8n
Why n8n uses a...
2023-08-0940 min
ContributorAutomation for Technical People: n8n with Jan OberhauserJan Oberhauser (@JanOberhauser) is the founder and CEO of n8n, the free and source-available workflow automation tool for technical users. n8n's flexible architecture allows users to avoid the limitations of other automation tools, while also opening doors for complex automation scenarios. The project has garnered over 30,000 GitHub stars and a thriving community of 55,000+ members.
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How Jan’s background in film effects laid the groundwork for n8n
Why n8n uses a...
2023-08-0940 min
ContributorRethinking the Workflow Problem: Windmill with Ruben FiszelRuben Fiszel (@rubenfiszel) is the creator of Windmill, the open-source developer platform that lets users easily turn scripts into workflows and internal apps with auto-generated UIs. Windmill doesn’t force engineers to change their coding style or adopt a convoluted API, and its low-code design makes it accessible to non-technical users. Tune in to find out how Windmill offers speed, performance and flexibility, while avoiding the limitations of rigid tools.
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2023-07-0526 min
ContributorRethinking the Workflow Problem: Windmill with Ruben FiszelRuben Fiszel (@rubenfiszel) is the creator of Windmill, the open-source developer platform that lets users easily turn scripts into workflows and internal apps with auto-generated UIs. Windmill doesn’t force engineers to change their coding style or adopt a convoluted API, and its low-code design makes it accessible to non-technical users. Tune in to find out how Windmill offers speed, performance and flexibility, while avoiding the limitations of rigid tools.
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Why many engineers try to re...
2023-07-0526 min
Open||Source||DataDeterminism in Complex Environments and Workflow Services with Maxim FateevThis episode features an interview with Maxim Fateev, Co-founder and CEO of Temporal, an open source, distributed, and scalable workflow orchestration engine capable of running millions of workflows. He has 20 years of experience architecting mission-critical systems at Uber, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft. In this episode, Sam sits down with Maxim to discuss workflow services, the power behind Temporal, and bringing determinism to highly complex environments.-------------------“[Temporal] has this notion of workflows, which can run for a very long time and handle external events, you can treat them as a durable actor. And the...
2023-05-0342 min
PodRocketTemporal with Maxim Fateev and Ryland GoldsteinTemporal is a developer-first, open-source platform that ensures the successful execution of services and applications. We talk to Maxim Fateev, CEO and co-founder, and Ryland Goldstein, Head of Product, about how Temporal simplifies development and operations, and the future of the product.
Links
https://temporal.io
https://github.com/temporalio/temporal
https://twitter.com/temporalio
https://docs.temporal.io
https://twitter.com/mfateev
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2022-09-2948 min
Open Source Startup PodcastE45: Creating Resilient Applications with Temporal (pt 2)Maxim Fateev is Co-Founder & CEO and Dominik Tornow is Principal Engineer at Temporal, the workflow platform for building resilient applications.
Temporal is the company centered on the open source orchestration engine Temporal which is a fork of the project Cadence first created at Uber. The Temporal project and company have seen tremendous interest and the cloud service for Temporal will be GA later this year.
The company is valued at $1.5B and raised from investors including Sequoia, Index, and Amplify.
In this episode, we discuss the origins of Temporal at Uber, use cases...
2022-08-0541 min
The CloudcastManaging MicroservicesMaxim Fateev (@mfateev, Co-Founder/CEO of @temporalio) talks about building modern applications, rethinking microservices, and orchestrating business logic. SHOW: 637CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog Security Solution: Modern Monitoring and SecurityStart investigating security threats before it affects your customers with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.Streamline on-call, collaboration, incident management, and automation with a free 30-day t...
2022-07-2728 min
ContributorTemporal (Part 2) with Maxim Fateev and Dominik TornowEric Anderson (@ericmander) returns to Temporal with co-founder Maxim Fateev (@mfateev) and principal engineer Dominik Tornow (@DominikTornow). When Maxim joined us in September of 2020, the company called their project a “workflow orchestrator.” Today, Temporal has grown in popularity and usability, but the terminology around that abstraction has changed. Tune in to track the evolution of what Maxim calls a genuinely “new category of software.”
In this episode we discuss:
New features and developments in the last 2 years
The proper way to pronounce “Temporal”
How Temporal guarantees that workflow execution actually runs to execution
Describing Temporal as a new pair o...
2022-06-2240 min
ContributorTemporal (Part 2) with Maxim Fateev and Dominik TornowEric Anderson (@ericmander) returns to Temporal with co-founder Maxim Fateev (@mfateev) and principal engineer Dominik Tornow (@DominikTornow). When Maxim joined us in September of 2020, the company called their project a “workflow orchestrator.” Today, Temporal has grown in popularity and usability, but the terminology around that abstraction has changed. Tune in to track the evolution of what Maxim calls a genuinely “new category of software.”
In this episode we discuss:
New features and developments in the last 2 years
The proper way to pronounce “Temporal”
How Temporal guarantees that workflow execution actually runs to execution
Describing Temporal as a new pair o...
2022-06-2240 min
The Craft Of Open SourceTemporal w/ Co-Founder and CEO Maxim Fateev & Head of Product Ryland GoldsteinTemporal's Co-Founder and CEO, Maxim Fateev, and Head of Product, Ryland Goldstein sit down with Ben to talk about open source and the origin of their project. Temporal is a microservice orchestration platform which enables developers to build scalable applications without sacrificing productivity or reliability. Temporal server executes units of application logic, Workflows, in a resilient manner that automatically handles intermittent failures, and retries failed operations.
2022-06-2050 min
The 6 Figure Developer PodcastTemporal with Maxim Fateev & Dominik Tornow
Episode 242
Maxim has worked at companies such as Microsoft, Google, and Amazon, and is currently CEO and cofounder of Temporal.
Dominik is a Principal Engineer at Temporal. He focuses on systems modeling, specifically conceptual and formal modeling, to support the design and documentation of complex software systems.
Links
https://twitter.com/mfateev
https://www.linkedin.com/in/fateev/
https://twitter.com/DominikTornow
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dtornow/
Resources
https://www.temporal.io/
https://temporal.io/slack
2022-05-2341 minThe 6 Figure DeveloperTemporal with Maxim Fateev & Dominik Tornow
Episode 242
Maxim has worked at companies such as Microsoft, Google, and Amazon, and is currently CEO and cofounder of Temporal.
Dominik is a Principal Engineer at Temporal. He focuses on systems modeling, specifically conceptual and formal modeling, to support the design and documentation of complex software systems.
Links
https://twitter.com/mfateev
https://www.linkedin.com/in/fateev/
https://twitter.com/DominikTornow
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dtornow/
Resources
https://www.temporal.io/
https://temporal.io/slack
2022-05-2341 min
Open Source Startup PodcastE7: From Open-Source Project at Uber to Temporal.ioMaxim Fateev, Co-Founder & CEO, Temporal.io
1:17: Maxim digs into his extensive experience with distributed systems and how it led him to build Cadence, the open-source project behind his company Temporal
5:10: We discuss why open-source is important and how it helps projects last vs. keeping them within a company where they will most likely die
9:30: Maxim talks about finding product-market fit through open-source before raising venture capital; one signal was the quality of engineers from top companies in their 1K person slack channel
14:35: We discuss the importance of building trust with users, e...
2021-08-0541 min
ContributorTemporal with Maxim FateevEric Anderson (@ericmander) and Maxim Fateev (@mfateev) trace the development of Temporal, an open-source workflow orchestration engine. At Uber, Maxim co-created the project’s predecessor, Cadence, but Temporal’s roots stretch farther back to include lessons learned at Amazon and Microsoft. In this episode, learn how 18 years of experience in asynchronous messaging and workflows culminated in the foundation of Temporal.
In this episode we discuss:
Why Maxim quit Uber to start his own company
Differences between Temporal and Cadence
How Uber is filling the position that Google once had incubating open-source projects
Maxim’s advice for aspiri...
2020-09-2330 min
ContributorTemporal with Maxim FateevEric Anderson (@ericmander) and Maxim Fateev (@mfateev) trace the development of Temporal, an open-source workflow orchestration engine. At Uber, Maxim co-created the project’s predecessor, Cadence, but Temporal’s roots stretch farther back to include lessons learned at Amazon and Microsoft. In this episode, learn how 18 years of experience in asynchronous messaging and workflows culminated in the foundation of Temporal.
In this episode we discuss:
Why Maxim quit Uber to start his own company
Differences between Temporal and Cadence
How Uber is filling the position that Google once had incubating open-source projects
Maxim’s advice for aspiri...
2020-09-2330 minSoftware Engineering DailyCadence: Uber’s Workflow Engine with Maxim FateevA workflow is an application that involves more than just a simple request/response communication. For example, consider a session of a user taking a ride in an Uber. The user initiates the ride, and the ride might last for an hour. At the end of the ride, the user is charged for the ride and sent a transactional email.Throughout this entire ride, there are many different services and database tables being accessed across the Uber infrastructure. The transactions across this infrastructure need to be processed despite server failures which may occur along the way.
2020-04-0852 min