Tom Wheeler

@kayvz @KatiMichel @temporalio @Macroscope To read the origin story of our beloved tardigrade (Ziggy), check out this blog post: temporal.io/blog/temporal-…

@KatiMichel @temporalio @Macroscope it all makes sense now

This is a love letter to @temporalio. Not because of the product (which powers a big chunk of @Macroscope's infrastructure and we love), but because of a tiny purple tardigrade. A few months ago I spoke at Temporal’s Replay conference in SF. Afterwards, I grabbed a swag bag on the way out. Inside was a plush tardigrade. I’m embarrassed to say I didn’t know what a tardigrade even was before this. Though it was mythical? Wtf does it even have to do with Temporal. I still don’t know. That plush somehow became my almost-2-year-old son’s most prized possession. He carries it everywhere. Sleeps with it. Calls it “tar-da-grade,” which is remarkable considering that’s about 25% of his vocabulary. A few months later, disaster struck. One of our dogs chewed the tardigrade to pieces. Our son was devastated. “Where’s tardigrade?” “He’s… at the doctor.” I tried superglue surgery before realizing maybe glue fumes and toddler bedtime weren’t an ideal combination. I searched everywhere online but couldn’t find another one. So Sunday night I sent a slightly ridiculous message to our Temporal AE, Zac Bischoff, asking if there was any chance he could help a desperate dad. The next day, not one but TWO replacement tardigrades showed up at my office. Durable execution ftw. Thank you Zac, and thank you Temporal. You made a 2yo happy (albeit somewhat oblivious) and a father even happier.

I’m excited to announce that I’m giving a lightning talk at @ssw_conf. Join me to learn how applications can recover from crashes without losing state or unnecessarily repeating completed work.

So glad to join @mfateev and @sergeybykov on this Techstrong TV episode about Durable Execution.

Great engineers don't manage complexity — they eliminate it. If you're among them, @temporalio's Replay '26 is the place to be: Moscone Center in SF, May 5-7. Register at replay.temporal.io and use coupon code WHEELER80 for 80% off. #Replay2026 #DurableExecution

@TalentLMS Our training courses in TalentLMS have been unavailable for two days and your staff has been unresponsive. Can you please get in touch with me so we can get this fixed? Thanks.

@NikhilVerma @temporalio Our Temporal 101 training and developer guide documentation both mention the limited payload size. I realize that not everyone sees those resources, though, so please let me know if you have ideas for making this info more visible.

I really like @temporalio but man there are some very leaky abstractions that you only run into when you start scaling. They all make "sense" but the fact that they come at you once you start getting comfortable sucks. The most recent one, an activity payload can't exceed 2MB. It makes sense if you understand how Temporal works, but we only ran into it after a couple months of running it on production, as we never had the case happen before.

@NikhilVerma @temporalio @NikhilVerma I'm glad to hear that you like Temporal. I also understand your frustration re payload size. I've faced similar limits in other systems (e.g., Apache Kafka and ZooKeeper). They protect system performance, but require the developer to be aware of them.

@venkat_s See you in Bangalore!

Hello April: 1—NYC: Private training 1—NJ JUG gsjug.org 2—NY SIG tinyurl.com/5cyuza95 5—St. Louis - NFJS tinyurl.com/2nekpauz 9—ATL - DevNexus devnexus.com 12—SEA 17—Montreal 20—Chennai JUG 23—Bangalore GIDS tinyurl.com/ycvv9yv5 27—Delhi JUG

@gamesbrainiac Could you be specific about which OS update (version) broke it so I can avoid it until Screenflow has a fix?

So, Screenflow has stopped working after the newest MacOS update. This is terrible.

Datadog's new @temporalio integration enables you to visualize and monitor the health of every service in your Temporal Server. Learn more: dtdg.co/3rfZIvF

@jeanqasaur I wouldn't say it's my favorite thing, but definitely unknown by most is the extent to which FORTRAN code still plays a key role in aerospace engineering.

Question: what's your favorite unknown/unsexy technical thing that runs a lot of the world?

@DominikTornow I can confirm from personal experience that working with Dominik sparks joy.

Posting our first job opening in engineering soon 🎉 Beyond competitive compensation & benefits, I want to craft a workspace that sparks joy ❤️ One way: Lift each other up. Let's grow our knowledge & understanding of distributed systems, together. x.com/DominikTornow/…

@bcantrill The distinction between blog post and manifesto lies with font selection, not word count. Proclamations may be either verbose or succinct, but to be accepted as undeniable fact, they must be expressed in Comic Sans.

At what length is a blog post more aptly called a manifesto?

We can't wait to have our friends at @bitovi join us for #Replay2023 from September 12-14! 🚀 Stop by their booth to see Matt and let's #talkTemporal! Grab your ticket today! For @bitovi followers, use code: BITOVI20 to get a discount to the conference 👉 temporal.io/replay

Time-travel debugging is a really efficient way of finding the issue with your code. Only certain debuggers (starting in 1976 with Smalltalk-76) can do it. Many of them use a technique called record & replay to achieve it.

Only six weeks until one of my favorite talks of all time has a sequel. There's still time to sign up and see it live. If you never saw the original, do yourself a favor: youtu.be/PcUWphfLyMA

Today's the day! We're meeting with GoLang in London later this afternoon! Our Developer Advocate, Rob Holland will be discussing: "Designing for Failure" where he explores failures in microservice architectures. Join us for networking and learning 👉 events.temporal.io/GoLanginLondon…

@bibryam Based on these visuals, it looks like the Gateway Arch in downtown St. Louis has surpassed the fourth wave of innovation and is closing in on the fifth.

Long wave innovation cycles

@DubJug Bruno the Java Man!

Who is this ?

@sghill @temporalio We're so glad you enjoyed them, Steve!