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Was this company launched by Uber or is it just based on Uber's open-source work? EDIT: According to https://blog.amplifypartners.com/our-investment-in-tempora
by atarian 5y ago
Was this company launched by Uber or is it just based on Uber's open-source work?
EDIT: According to https://blog.amplifypartners.com/our-investment-in-temporal/ https://blog.amplifypartners.com/our-investment-in-temporal/, Temporal was founded by 2 engineers at Uber who created an open-source orchestration engine called Cadence and then later decided to found Temporal.
- swyx 5y agoyes correct. open source project started at Uber, project leads left and forked Cadence to start Temporal. origin story on podcast here https://docs.temporal.io/blog/gremlin-podcast#origin-story-of-temporal https://docs.temporal.io/blog/gremlin-podcast#origin-story-o...
- ignoramous 5y agoShades of Amazon Simple Workflow, which was anything but simple... (: It stands along side SimpleDB as a deprecated AWS service (unofficially), no less. I guess, AWS gave up too soon on Maxim's vision.
- swyx 5y agoi think its more that it took Max ~6 more years after building SWF + getting experience at Google + Uber before he finally got to the right abstraction with Temporal