Temporal Case Study

Question 1

Checker

Answer 1

Checker runs a background verification on employees just by exposing an API which companies can invoke.
Background checks have privacy obligations, legal obligations. You cant run background checks in any arbitary way. You have to rely on systems which may not be available at all hours of the day.

Question 2

Complexity of versioning

Answer 2

How do we version systems which are in mid flight

Question 3

YUM

Answer 3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcUWphfLyMA

Question 4

Synchronous Workflows

Answer 4

Synchronous workflows are supported in Temporal

Question 5

Shard Count

Answer 5

Shard count needs to be tuned for performance. Elastic search also helps in performance. 1000 task/sec per partition.