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Temporal practice

Durable execution for long-running workflows

Learn Temporal’s durable-execution model — workflows vs activities, why workflow code must be deterministic and how event-history replay rebuilds state, workers and task queues, activity timeouts and retry policies, signals/queries/updates, durable timers, child workflows and continue-as-new, the saga/compensation pattern, and safe versioning. The patterns behind reliable, long-running processes. Part of the Developer track.

• Meets you at your level — never too easy, never too hard.

• Adapts every question to how you’re doing.

• Tracks your level over time. Skill practice, not a test.

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A free 17-minute primer — the mental model, the mistakes beginners make, and what to practise first.

Curriculum

134 concepts across 21 chapters, from foundations through advanced practice — each one a concept the adaptive question bank can teach and test.

A. Durable execution — what it is and what it replaces

B. The Temporal Service and the Client

C. Workflows: definition, execution and identity

D. Determinism — the constraint everything rests on

E. Event history and replay

F. Activities

G. Timeouts — and which one to actually set

H. Retries and retry policies

I. Failures, errors and cancellation

J. Messages: Signals, Queries and Updates

K. Timers and durable sleep

L. Schedules and cron

M. Composition: child Workflows, continue-as-new and Nexus

N. Sagas, compensation and consistency

O. Task queues, Workers and tuning

P. Versioning and safe deployment

Q. Visibility and search attributes

R. Testing

S. Data conversion, payloads and encryption

T. Observability and debugging

U. Running Temporal: self-hosted and Cloud

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