Spring 2026 Temporal Product Update

What's next for Temporal? We're focused on three things: making Temporal even better for AI workloads, delivering enterprise completeness with the infrastructure and controls large organizations require, and simplifying the developer experience so every developer (and every agent) can write code that never fails.

Key takeaways:
- Temporal already powers the top AI labs and agent companies. Long-running agentic workflows are getting even better with large payload support, streaming, and serverless worker support.
- Enterprises already adopt Temporal for its reliability and zero-trust encryption architecture. Azure support, worker versioning, custom roles, and cost visibility let operators securely use Temporal for even more use cases.
- Developer experience: Standalone Tasks, official skill files for AI coding assistants, and streamlined onboarding make Temporal easier to start and harder to mess up.

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Context  
1:49 - Welcome message  
3:25 - Introduction to Temporal product update  
4:12 - How Temporal ship features  
5:30 - Overview of recent feature releases  
8:54 - Today's agenda  

Platform & Deployment  
10:02 - Temporal Cloud on Azure  
11:40 - Serverless Workers  
13:27 - Capacity Modes  
15:08 - High Availability Features: Replication  
15:46 - Self-Hosted to Cloud Migration  

Execution Model & Nexus  
17:27 - Temporal Agent Skill  
19:48 - Standalone Activities  
21:22 - Task Queue Fairness  
23:49 - Task Queue Priority  
26:39 - Temporal Nexus  
28:01 - Standalone Nexus Operations  
28:55 - Eager Workflow Start  
29:42 - Rust SDK  

AI & Emerging Bets  
30:44 - AI Features/Integrations Overview  
31:36 - OpenAI Agents SDK Integration  
33:14 - Large Payload Storage  
34:20 - Streaming  
35:04 - Execution History Branching  

Observability & Operations  
36:22 - Agentic Observability  
37:22 - Temporal Worker Controller for Kubernetes  
38:47 - Activity Commands  
40:10 - Workflow Pause & Remediation  
41:22 - Cloud Operations API  
42:16 - Billing and Usage API  

Security & IAM  
43:16 - Financial Visibility - Billing Center  
43:36 - Private Connectivity Enhancements  
44:05 - Workload Identity Federation  
45:11 - Projects  
46:13 - Custom roles (fine-grained auth)
47:34 - Q&A

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Temporal is the simple, scalable, open source way to write and run reliable cloud applications. 

Learn more
Blog: https://temporal.io/blog
How Temporal Works: https://temporal.io/how-temporal-works
Community Slack: https://temporal.io/slack

Developer resources
Docs: https://docs.temporal.io
Courses: https://learn.temporal.io/courses
Support forum: https://community.temporal.io