Temporal's Sr Software Engineer Speaks @ Replay 2026 | Being Creative: Tales from the Trenches

James Watkins (Senior Software Engineer, Temporal) looks at unconventional uses of Temporal from the field, some successful and some not, to make the Worker execution model more visible. The talk is for developers who want to understand what is happening under the hood when they step outside the standard patterns, and how to do so intentionally.

Filmed at Replay 2026: The Durable Execution Conference for AI, by Temporal.

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