Temporal is an open source platform to build resilient and reliable distributed systems. Datadog started using Temporal in 2020 as the foundation for our internal software delivery platform. Since then, its usage has been widely adopted as a platform that any engineering team can use to build their systems.

In this Datadog on episode, Ara Pulido will chat with Loïc Minaudier, Senior Software Engineer in the Atlas team, responsible for providing a developer platform on top of Temporal, and Allen George, Engineering Manager in the Datadog Workflows team.

They will discuss the ideas and design decisions behind Atlas, and how this platform was leveraged to allow building the Datadog Workflow Automation product faster and more reliably. They will also cover some of the upstream contributions the Datadog engineers have made to Temporal.

By the end of the episode you will understand Temporal better and how you can use it in your own organization to build reliable distributed applications.