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Saving State while Still Growing with Temporal's Preeti Somal

Saving State while Still Growing with Temporal's Preeti Somal

Update: 2025-07-03
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In this episode, Scott chats with Preeti Somal, Senior Vice President of Engineering at Temporal, to explore how teams at OpenAI, Stripe, Netflix, and beyond are building long-running, crash-proof applications using Temporal's open‑source durable execution engine. Drawing on her leadership roles at HashiCorp, Yahoo!, and VMware, Preeti breaks down the orchestration challenges in today’s AI‑powered agentic architectures, shares how platform engineering, culture, and developer experience interact, and explains the feedback loops that drive platform improvement. She also offers a dive into resilience patterns like retries, state management, and sagas, and shares lessons on scaling engineering organizations through rapid growth. 

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Saving State while Still Growing with Temporal's Preeti Somal

Saving State while Still Growing with Temporal's Preeti Somal

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