Maxim Fateev on the OSS Startups Podcast

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This post provides a historical overview of Temporal's origins, tracing its lineage from AWS Simple Workflow Service and Azure Durable Functions. It details the transition from Cadence to Temporal, emphasizing the decision to open-source the project for long-term sustainability and industry-wide adoption. The post also discusses the challenges of building a startup, particularly in hiring specialized distributed systems engineers, and highlights the importance of customer pain points and the founders' deep experience in establishing trust and product-market fit. The core concept of Temporal as a stateful computation engine that preserves and guarantees the state of a process is reiterated.