Distributed systems in disguise with Maxim Fateev from Temporal | Zero-Shot Learning

When most developers write code, crash recovery logic is at the bottom of their priorities, until crashes and delays force them to incorporate resiliency logic. That’s why Temporal co-founder and CTO Maxim Fateev built a system to turn code into durable execution. In his conversation with 1Password CTO Nancy Wang and VP of Engineering for Developer and AI Jeff Malnick, Maxim explains why the distributed systems thinking that shaped his work is now essential for building reliable AI agents, with a live demo of a durable agent surviving a crash.

In this episode:
Events are the global variables of distributed systems
Durable execution removes the need for specific languages to run workflows
While agent skills are unreliable, hooks are a hard boundary
Once agents need retries, they inherit the complexity of large-scale distributed systems
Sandboxing agents is the only way to contain what they can access

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